Author Question: Three- and four-year old children's misinterpretation of passive sentences such as The car was ... (Read 88 times)

JGIBBSON · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Three- and four-year old children's misinterpretation of passive sentences such as The car was pushed by the truck probably reflects

a. their failure to understand the lexical items in the sentence
b. behavioral biases
c. the fact that such sentences are irreversible passives
d. their use of an English word-order strategy

Question 2

Give examples of prototypical members of the category bird, and explain why some members of a category are more prototypical than others.

Indicate whether the statement is true or false.