Cynthia Fisher
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cynthia Fisher is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 7. Not all subjects are agents: Transitivity and meaning in early language comprehension Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 153–176 | Chapter
Children use syntax to guide sentence comprehension and verb learning. We explored the nature of the meanings children infer from syntactic evidence by examining the types of event-roles they can link with the subjects and objects of transitive verbs. In two experiments, 23-month-olds heard a novel… read more
2001 Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition Approaches to Bootstrapping: Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition, Weissenborn, Jürgen and Barbara Höhle (eds.), pp. 47–69 | Article