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    "pk": 49269,
    "title": "Learning novel intransitive verbs from input cues: Experiments with Mandarin-learning toddlers",
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    "abstract": "In two novel verb experiments using the visual fixation paradigm, we investigated how Mandarin-learning toddlers employ distributional cues and semantic cues to categorize novel unaccusative and unergative verbs. In Experiment 1, 31-month-old (but not 19-month-old) participants were found to use the word-order cue to categorize two novel verbs VUA and VUE: after hearing \"VUA-le NP\" and \"NP VUE-le\" in the training phase, they categorized VUA as unaccusative and VUE as unergative, showing discrimination in looking times between grammatical trials \"NP VUA-le\" and ungrammatical trials \"VUE-le NP\" in the test phase. In Experiment 2, 31-month-olds used the semantic cue of telicity provided via novel events to make categorizations: watching a telic event paired with \"VUA-le\" and an atelic event paired with \"VUE-le\" led to differentiation between grammatical trials \"VUA-le NP\" and ungrammatical trials \"VUE-le NP\". The findings provide evidence for toddlers' ability to extract information from the input and make generalizations in verb learning.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Language acquisition; Learning; Syntax; Eye tracking"
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    "section": "Papers with Oral Presentation",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/17z6k0m5",
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        {
            "first_name": "Ziqi",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wang",
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            "institution": "Beijing Institute of Technology",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Xiaolu",
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            "last_name": "Yang",
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            "institution": "Tsinghua University",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stella",
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            "last_name": "Christie",
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            "institution": "Tsinghua University",
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        {
            "first_name": "Rushen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Shi",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "UniversitŽ du QuŽbec à MontrŽal",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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