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Linguistics Seminar Series Lecture - Matthew Rispoli, Assoc. Prof. Department of Speech and Hearing Science, UIUC

Event Type
Lecture
Sponsor
Department of Linguistics
Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Date
Jan 27, 2020   4:00 pm  
Cost
Free and open to the public
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Originating Calendar
School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar

Talk’s title: The Development of Predication

Abstract: 

While there has been a great deal of research on the acquisition of verbs and their meaning, there has been much less research on the development of predication. Even while the toddler is in the 1-word stage, his/her utterances provide evidence of predication. In the transitional 2-word stage, toddlers exhibit a diversity of single argument state predicates (monadic states) such as horse in, it broke(n).  Subsequently, as toddlers develop a distinct lexical category of verb, monadic states combine with intransitive process verbs to form [process [result]] predicates (e.g. tower fall downbaby get dirty). The formulation of still more complex transitive process [initiation [process [result]]] verbs (e.g. put pajamas onwash dishes all clean) lags significantly behind the earlier single-argument process + result predicates. This sequence of predicate development is currently being employed as a roadmap for treatment targets in a l

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