Malillo Machobane
National University of Lesotho
12 Papers
83 Citations
Malillo Machobane is an academic researcher from National University of Lesotho. The author has contributed to research in topics: Verb & Object (grammar). The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 12 publications.
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Papers
3-Year-olds' comprehension, production, and generalization of Sesotho passives.
TL;DR: These findings provide strong evidence that Sesotho-speaking 3-year-olds have robust, abstract knowledge of passive syntax, and the implications for understanding grammatical development more generally.
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Learning Animacy Hierarchy Effects in Sesotho Double Object Applicatives
TL;DR: Performance on forced-choice elicited production tasks showed that four-year-olds have early knowledge of the animacy hierarchy restrictions, providing evidence of syntactic generalization even on low-frequency constructions, and suggests that construction frequency also plays a role in mastering the argument structure of verbs.
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Rules and construction effects in learning the argument structure of verbs.
TL;DR: Examination of three- to eight-year-old children's knowledge of word order restrictions in Sesotho double object applicatives suggested that learning the argument structure of verbs, even when lexical semantics is not involved, may be more sensitive to lexical construction effects than previously thought.
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Learning Word Order Constraints Under Conditions of Object Ellipsis
TL;DR: Examining children's acquisition of double-object applicative constructions in the Bantu language Sesotho, where evidence for the order of postverbal objects is absent from the input, raises questions regarding the types of learning strategies children use under conditions of ellipsis, and the implications this has for theories of language acquisition.
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