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Psych verbs, the linking problem, and the acquisition of language [PDF]
Cognition, 2016 In acquiring language, children must learn to appropriately place the different participants of an event (e.g., causal agent, affected entity) into the correct syntactic positions (e.g., subject, object) so that listeners will know who did what to whom.
Jesse Snedeker +2 more
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Turkish EFL Learners’ Acquisition of Psych Verbs and Unaccusative Verbs: A Replication Study on Underpassivization and Overpassivization [PDF]
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2022 The processability account anticipates that learners will make more underpassivization errors than overpassivization errors since passivization entails more processing.
Seray Tanyer, Samet Deniz
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Information Structure and Word Order Canonicity in the Comprehension of Spanish Texts: An Eye-Tracking Study [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Word order alternation has been described as one of the most productive information structure markers and discourse organizers across languages. Psycholinguistic evidence has shown that word order is a crucial cue for argument interpretation.
Carolina A. Gattei +4 more
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Valence orientation and psych properties: Toward a typology of the psych alternation
Open Linguistics, 2020 Languages differ with respect to the morphological structure of their verbal inventory: some languages predominantly derive intransitive experiencer-subject verbs from more basic transitive experiencer-object verbs by morphosyntactic operations such as ...
Rott Julian A. +2 more
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Psych verbs: the behavior of ObjExp verbs in Brazilian Portuguese
LinguisticsPsychological verbs, especially Object Experiencer verbs, are widely discussed in the linguistic literature because of their peculiar syntactic and semantic properties.
Márcia Cançado
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Heads and layers in agglutination: A case in deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese
Open Linguistics, 2021 Using deadjectival psych verbs with -garu in Japanese, this study shows that agglutinative complex predicate formation is done by recursive application of Merge to roots and functional heads.
Nakajima Takashi
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On the acquisition of Spanish psych predicates
Isogloss, 2022 Spanish psych verbs like gustar (‘like’/‘please’) have a non-agreeing dative experiencer that asymmetrically c-commands the agreeing nominative theme (e.g., Cuervo 2003). Intervention accounts (Friedmann et al.
Victoria Mateu
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Corela, 2020 Contrary to adjectives like amusing and touching, certain Ving/ant adjectives have a psych reading without originating from a psych verb, such as jaw-dropping 'surprising' in English and marrant 'amusing' in French.
Isabelle Haïk
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European Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020 Abstract Divergent thinking (DT) is an important constituent of creativity that captures aspects of fluency and originality. The literature lacks multivariate studies that report relationships between DT and its aspects with relevant covariates, such as cognitive abilities, personality traits (e.g. openness), and insight. In two multivariate studies (N
S. Weiss +6 more
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The Syntactic Distribution of Object Experiencer Psych Verbs in Heritage Spanish
Languages, 2020 This paper contributes to our understanding of the grammatical architecture of heritage languages and, specifically, the role of lexical semantics, by examining the syntactic distribution of Spanish psych verbs.
Becky Halloran Gonzalez
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