Structural limits on verb mapping: the role of abstract structure in 2.5‐year‐olds’ interpretations of novel verbs

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Becoming syntactic. (2006, background): “This task thus provides evidence for early-syntax approaches that posit some syntaxspecific tendency to learn abstract structure (Fisher, 2002a; Gleitman , 1990; Naigles, 2002).”
A Construction Based Analysis of Child Directed Speech. (2003, background): “Thus, to give just two examples, children’s ability to generalize verb morphology to novel verbs develops after they are already well able to do this for novel nouns (Tomasello, Akhtar, Dodson, & Rekau, 1997); their ability to correct ungrammatical utterances with novel verbs to canonical word order”
Syntactic priming during language comprehension in three- and four-year-old children (2008, background): “Developmentally, there is a tension between evidence for early abstract representations (e.g., Fisher, 2002b) and item-specific use (e.g., Tomasello, 2000a) in children.”