Verb aspect, event structure, and coreferential processing
| Autor: | Hannah Rohde, Todd R. Ferretti, Andrew Kehler, Melanie Crutchley |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Linguistics and Language
Perfective aspect PRONOUN RESOLUTION SITUATION MODELS Verb Experimental and Cognitive Psychology NARRATIVE COMPREHENSION Article Language and Linguistics Task (project management) BRAIN POTENTIALS Artificial Intelligence SENTENCE COMPREHENSION LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION Pronoun IMPLICIT CAUSALITY Linguistics Comprehension DISCOURSE Event structure Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Reading comprehension Coreferential processing Pronouns Thematic roles Task analysis Verb aspect EYE-MOVEMENTS Psychology ERP Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Ferretti, T R, Rohde, H, Kehler, A & Crutchley, M 2009, ' Verb aspect, event structure, and coreferential processing ', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 191-205 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2009.04.001 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jml.2009.04.001 |
| Popis: | We used an off-line story continuation task and an online ERP reading task to investigate coreferential processing following sentences that portrayed transfer-of-possession events as either ongoing or completed, using imperfective and perfective verb aspect (e.g., Amanda was shifting/shifted some poker chips to Scott). The story continuation task demonstrated that people were more likely to begin continuations with references to the Goal than to the Source, but that perfective aspect strengthened this bias. In the ERP task we probed expectations for Source and Goal referents by employing pronouns that matched one of the referents in gender. The ERP results were consistent with the biases revealed in the story continuation task and demonstrate that the difference in Goal bias for the two forms of aspect was manifested differently in the brain. These results provide novel behavioral and neurocognitive evidence that verb aspect influences the construction of situation models during language comprehension. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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