Baker's paradox
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(linguistics) The apparent paradox that children learning English encounter many sentences amenable to dative shift (e.g. give the book to me
→ give me the book
) but apparently have no way to learn that this is not possible with certain verbs (e.g. *donate me the book
is unacceptable), and yet rarely make this kind of error.
Baker's paradox
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'.
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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