Join us this Thursday at 4pm to hear our own Laurel Perkins: abstract below. https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99418223045?pwd=YXQrM29FSWhVZ1dZMGdHdVd4c2Ftdz09 Meeting ID: 994 1822 3045Passcode: 398484 Verb Learning and Event Representations in InfancyInfants use the syntactic distributions of new verbs to draw inferences about the types of events those verbs describe (syntactic bootstrapping: e.g. Gleitman, 1990). To determine how they do this, we need to understand (1) how infants view particular events in the world, independent of language, and (2) how they relate particular sentence representations…