The cross-linguistic processing of aspect – an eyetracking study on the time course of aspectual interpretation in Russian and German
| Autor: | Anja Gattnar, Oliver Bott |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Linguistics and Language
Interpretation (logic) Computer science Cognitive Neuroscience Lexical aspect media_common.quotation_subject Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Verb Semantics Grammatical aspect Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics German Reading (process) language media_common Word order |
| Zdroj: | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30:877-898 |
| ISSN: | 2327-3801 2327-3798 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23273798.2015.1029499 |
| Popis: | This paper reports a cross-linguistic study on the time course of aspectual interpretation in an aspect language (Russian) and a non-aspect language (German). In Russian, mereological semantics led us to expect incremental mismatch detection independently of the presence or absence of the verbal arguments. In German, however, mismatch effects should be delayed until the processor has encountered the complete predication. These predictions were tested in two eyetracking during reading experiments. We investigated the processing of achievement verbs modified by aspectually mismatching adverbials in Russian (Exp. 1) and German (Exp. 2) and manipulated the word order in such a way that the mismatch occurred before or after the predication was complete. The data show that Russian readers immediately noticed the mismatch independently of whether the verb preceded or followed its arguments, whereas German readers showed mismatch effects only after a complete predication. We take this as evidence for cross-lingui... |
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