Publication: Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish
Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish
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You, G., Ger, E., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish. Journal of Child Language, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925000200
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In this study, we explore how children learn causatives from the language they are exposed to in their everyday lives. Previous research has argued that argument structure is a crucial facilitator for learning causatives. Here, we examine the role of argument structure in the acquisition of morphological and lexical causatives. We use Turkish as a test case which allows argument ellipsis and ask whether reliable argument expression is a key factor in learning causatives. We use longitudinal data of 7 children spanning from 8 to 36 mon
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You, G., Ger, E., Daum, M. M., & Stoll, S. (2025). Children Learn Causatives Despite Pervasive Ellipsis: Evidence from Turkish. Journal of Child Language, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000925000200
