Conference Paper

Distribution of object types of 'light' and 'heavy' early-learned English verbs

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There is a continuum between "light" verbs (which can take a wider range of complements) and "heavy" verbs (which take a narrower range of complements).

Maouene, Josita, Laakso, Aarre, Maouene, Mounir, and Smith, Linda B.. 2010. "Distribution of object types of 'light' and 'heavy' early-learned English verbs." In Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2010), 88-94.