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Baker's paradox remains a central puzzle in syntactic acquisition: children rarely overgeneralize the dative alternation and seldom produce forms like '*donate me the book' despite hearing many examples of both 'give the book to me' and 'give me the book'.

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Baker's paradox remains a central puzzle in syntactic acquisition: children rarely overgeneralize the dative alternation and seldom produce forms like '*donate me the book' despite hearing many examples of both 'give the book to me' and 'give me the book'.

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ベイカーが指摘した逆説は統語習得における重要な謎のままであり、子どもたちは与格交替をほとんど過剰一般化せず、'give the book to me' と 'give me the book' の両方の例を多く聞くにもかかわらず '*donate me the book' のような形をほとんど産出しない。

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