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  1. ; (, Proceedings of the 42nd Boston University Conference on Language Development)
    This paper is concerned with the relationship between be-passives of certain non-actional verbs such as love in (1) and raising-past-experiencer (RPE) constructions with the verb seem as in (2), both from a theoretical and an acquisition perspective. (1) Alex was loved by Emma. (2) Alex seems to Emma to be nice. There are two questions that we would like to address in this paper. First, why are be-passives of certain non-actional verbs such as (1) dramatically delayed in children acquiring English? And second, why would there be a tight correspondence between any given child’s ability to comprehend some non- actional passives, and the same child’s ability to comprehend a sentence like (2) as found by Orfitelli (2012)? 
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