Adjectives are a powerful tool for enriching vocabulary and developing conceptual
understanding. In early elementary and primary classrooms, across core and foundation …

This dissertation examines the acquisition of argument structure as a window into the role of
development in grammar learning. The way that children represent the data for language …

Children use correlations between the syntax of a clause and the meaning of its predicate to
draw inferences about word meanings. On one proposal, these inferences are underwritten …

This article reports on two novel word-learning experiments examining children's use of
subject animacy to categorize novel adjectives as either tough adjectives (eg, easy, hard) or …

In the English tough construction (TC), knowledge of tough movement is necessary for target
performance (the object-interpretation only; eg Johni is easy to see ei). The acquisition of the …

The difficulty that this pattern presents for language learners has been interpreted as
evidence for a deficit in child grammar (eg, Borer & Wexler 1987). However, I propose an …

Highly abstract predicates (eg think) present a number of difficulties for language learners. A
partial solution to learning these verbs is that learners exploit regularities in the syntactic …

This dissertation examines two constructions in which learners have been reported to show
deficits in linguistic competence:(a) the scrambled Korean Object-Subject-Verb pattern …

How do young children learn the meanings of adjectives that label emotions and mental
states, like happy or confident? The concepts behind these words seem easy to grasp, and …

Evaluative constructions involving tough-predicates (eg, This hill is difficult to climb) present
atypical structure-to-meaning mappings and vary across languages: in some languages (eg …