Position relative to verb Probability Position relative to verb Figure 2: Visual representations of (Left) the initial model's expectations of where arguments will appear, given the initial parameters in Table 2 and (Right) the converged model's expectations of where arguments will appear.
3 Even though the infants had no extralinguistic knowledge about the verb, they consistently treated the verb as transitive if two nouns were present and intransitive if only one noun was present.