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verb island hypothesis: a standalone construct

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Language development

the proposal that early grammar is organized around individual verbs, each with its own constructions, rather than general syntactic categories.

In language development, verb island hypothesis refers to the proposal that early grammar is organized around individual verbs, each with its own constructions, rather than general syntactic categories. This meaning comes from Tomasello (2000) in Cognition.[1]

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References

Tomasello, M. (2000). Do young children have adult syntactic competence? Cognition, 74(3), 209-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0277(99)00069-4

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