Young Spanish learners also pay attention to sentence structure when learning motion verbs, while older children are also sensitive to lexical/typological patterns of Spanish or English. Thus, a novel motion verb is likely to refer to a path-of-motion in Spanish (entrar/enter, bajar/descend) but a manner-of-motion in English (run, skip).

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