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This project explores how young children acquire the ability to understand argument structure in language. By analyzing speech patterns in Estonian, it aims to identify the linguistic cues that children use to connect syntax and semantics.
The planned research will investigate the early acquisition of argument structure, a crucial example of syntax-semantics linking, in Estonian and cross-linguistic comparison.
The project investigates 2 to 5-year-old children’s ability to use information from different cues signalling argument structure, namely word order, case marking, and the discourse context.
The rich inflectional system and flexible word order of Estonian provide a sharp contrast to English, on which most studies of syntacti…
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