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Decipher a novel verb and keep it in your memory: Investigating children’s language acquisition within and beyond linguistics – Dr. Angela He (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Abstract: Language is a complicated computational system. Verbs are the central building pieces. How verb meanings are acquired by young children has been a major pursuit of many language acquisitionists. In this talk, I will present three lines of my work, all on English-learning infants’ and toddlers’ acquisition of novel verbs, revealing mechanisms of verb learning lying within and beyond linguistics. In the first line, I will talk about how infants utilize linguistic cues such as morphosyntactic and prosodic cues to infer new verb meanings (He & Lidz, 2017, Language Learning & Development; de Carvalho, He, Lidz, & Christophe, 2019, Psychological Science). [...]