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      Nouns to verbs and verbs to nouns: When do children acquire class extension rules for deverbal nouns and denominal verbs?

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      Applied Psycholinguistics
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          We investigated when children acquire class extension rules for denominal verbs and deverbal nouns using an intermodal preferential looking paradigm. We taught French-speaking 2.5-year-olds (mean age = 2 years, 8.56 months [2;8.56], range = 2;6–2;11) and 3-year-olds (mean age = 3;3.31, range = 3;0–3;5) novel parent nouns or verbs referring to unfamiliar instruments and their functions, and then tested their interpretation of both the parent word and its denominal verb or deverbal noun. Experiment 1 demonstrated that only the 3-year-olds understood the denominal verbs. Experiment 2 demonstrated that only 3-year-olds who learned the parent verbs were able to interpret the deverbal nouns correctly. These findings suggest that French-speaking children acquire class extension rules for denominal verbs and deverbal nouns by the age of 3 years and can demonstrate this knowledge as long as they are able to learn the parent words.

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                Journal
                applab
                Applied Psycholinguistics
                Applied Psycholinguistics
                Cambridge University Press (CUP)
                0142-7164
                1469-1817
                May 2015
                July 25 2013
                : 36
                : 03
                : 559-588
                Article
                10.1017/S0142716413000349
                80d69149-4761-4a9e-9bfb-441e6f8beb83
                © 2013
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