Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word order
The ability to understand and produce basic transitivity constructions serves as the foundation for human grammatical skills. While every clause or sentence in any given language follows a transitivity pattern, there is significant cross-linguistic variation in the specific formal elements used. Cer...
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| description | The ability to understand and produce basic transitivity constructions serves as the foundation for human grammatical skills. While every clause or sentence in any given language follows a transitivity pattern, there is significant cross-linguistic variation in the specific formal elements used. Certain languages primarily rely on distributed cues, such as the number and ordering of noun phrases, while others prefer local devices like causative morphology or case markers. Extensive research has been conducted on the role played by the number and position of argument noun phrases in comprehending simple transitive sentences. This article offers a comprehensive review of the available evidence, covering typically-developing and monolingual populations, various languages, and different theoretical approaches. It also highlights gaps in the existing literature and provides suggestions for future investigations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c389c8c2d39444acada7ea06b0d337a42025-02-02T15:49:16ZengSciendoPsychology of Language and Communication2083-85062024-01-0128149552410.58734/plc-2024-0018Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word orderAudisio Cynthia Pamela01Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental (CIIPME), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL), Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.The ability to understand and produce basic transitivity constructions serves as the foundation for human grammatical skills. While every clause or sentence in any given language follows a transitivity pattern, there is significant cross-linguistic variation in the specific formal elements used. Certain languages primarily rely on distributed cues, such as the number and ordering of noun phrases, while others prefer local devices like causative morphology or case markers. Extensive research has been conducted on the role played by the number and position of argument noun phrases in comprehending simple transitive sentences. This article offers a comprehensive review of the available evidence, covering typically-developing and monolingual populations, various languages, and different theoretical approaches. It also highlights gaps in the existing literature and provides suggestions for future investigations.https://doi.org/10.58734/plc-2024-0018transitivitydistributed cuesword ordernoun phrasessyntactic bootstrappinglanguage development |
| spellingShingle | Audisio Cynthia Pamela Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word order Psychology of Language and Communication transitivity distributed cues word order noun phrases syntactic bootstrapping language development |
| title | Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word order |
| title_full | Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word order |
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| title_short | Learning transitivity schemas: The role of the number of nominals and word order |
| title_sort | learning transitivity schemas the role of the number of nominals and word order |
| topic | transitivity distributed cues word order noun phrases syntactic bootstrapping language development |
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