Who's the Subject? Sentence Structure and Verb Meaning

Cynthia Fisher; Hyun Joo Song

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Who's the Subject? Sentence Structure and Verb Meaning

Cynthia Fisher, Hyun Joo Song

Department of Psychology

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This chapter argues that once children can identify the subject of a multiargument sentence as structurally prominent, they could assign a default interpretation to sentences containing a novel verb by assuming that the subject referent plays a semantically prominent role in the conceptual relation named by the verb. What counts as prominent will be determined by the situation and by the multidimensional attentional and representational biases of human perceivers.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Action Meets Word
Subtitle of host publication	How Children Learn Verbs
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780199893300
ISBN (Print)	0195170008, 9780195170009
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170009.003.0016
Publication status	Published - 2010 Apr 1

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