The Origin of Concepts

For example, if the concept give includes a giver, a receiver, and a gift, then the child may exploit syntactic evidence that a given verb has three arguments to guess that it might express this concept (see, for example, Gleitman, Cassidy, Napa, Papafragou, & Trueswell, 2005). ... Babies cannot react to a violation of the expected unless there ... ................
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