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Goldberg, Adele E. Fisher, Cynthia Ratitamkul, Theeraporn 2015-09-25T20:50:51Z 2015-09-25T20:50:51Z 10000-01-01 2007 2007 In order to investigate how children come to interpret omitted arguments, four experiments are reported involving Thai-speaking adults, English-speaking adults, Thai-speaking 4- and 5-year-olds, and English-speaking 5-year-olds. Participants listened to nonce verbs in an intransitive frame embedded in short stories. Adults were tested in a forced choice comprehension test while children performed a sentence act-out task. Results revealed that adults and children in both language groups interpreted structurally intransitive novel verbs as having an unexpressed object argument when a potential object appeared as subject in the following sentence. This indicates that subjects made pragmatic inferences based on the discourse context: inferring an omitted object allowed them to preserve discourse coherence. Hence, in addition to syntactic bootstrapping, discourse context may be used as another cue in acquiring verbs. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:50:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3270007.pdf: 3368155 bytes, checksum: f9ef71612c1bd17de2bc77469ee875b5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 83922 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 137 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/82641 (MiAaPQ)AAI3270007 eng Language, Linguistics Argument Realization in Thai text Linguistics Linguistics University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.