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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 ...
Joshua Keiles Hartshorne +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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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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Understanding economical outcomes with the mental number line [PDF]
, 2011 With this study we provide evidence that the cognitive processes involved in addition/subtraction, mapped along the mental number line, seem to mediate our understanding of trading verbs.
Carmelo Vicario
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Why bother? What our eyes tell about psych verb (non) causative constructions
Glossa Psycholinguistics, 2022 We present an eyetracking study that investigates how linking is achieved during real-time comprehension of Spanish sentences with causative psych verbs and alternative case marking.
Carolina A Gattei +5 more
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Extra argumentality - affectees, landmarks, and voice [PDF]
, 2006 This article investigates sentences with additional core arguments of a special type in three languages, viz. German, English, and Mandarin. These additional arguments, called extra arguments in the article, form a crosslinguistically homogeneous class ...
Cheung Hung-Nin +15 more
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Glossa, 2020 Among the sources of non-culminating readings, we find the agentive properties of the external argument. According to the Agent Control Hypothesis (ACH), the agenthood of the subject licenses a non-culminating interpretation with causative accomplishment
Elisabeth Verhoeven +2 more
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