Sign language encodes event structure through neuromotor dynamics: motion, muscle, and meaning [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study provides neuromotor evidence for the embodied kinematic encoding of grammatical event structure in sign language, using time-locked motion capture and surface electromyography (EMG) recordings from fluent Deaf ÖGS signers ...
Julia Krebs +8 more
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The Functionality of Relatively Recent Verbs of English Origin in the Romanian Language [PDF]
Philologia, 2023 The inclusion of Anglicisms in the vocabulary of the Romanian language presupposes a long process: identification, frequency, necessity, adoption, adaptation, functionality. In order to be included in the new linguistic system, once accepted, the lexical
Livia CARUNTU-CARAMAN
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Vaste combinaties van werkwoorden met voorzetsels in het Nederlands en het Tsjechisch
Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, 2023 This paper describes the results of a pilot contrastive study that focused on the differences and similarities between Dutch combinations of verbs with fixed prepositions and their Czech equivalents.
Kateřina Křížová
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On the path of time: Temporal motion in typological perspective [PDF]
, 2020 The Moving Ego and Moving Time metaphors have provided a fertile testing ground for the psychological reality of space–time metaphors. Despite this, little research has targeted the linguistic patterns used in these two mappings.
Duffy, Sarah, Feist, Michele
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The perfective past tense in Greek child language [PDF]
, 2009 This study examines the perfective past tense of Greek in an elicited production and an acceptability judgment task testing 35 adult native speakers and 154 children in six age groups (age range: 3 ; 5 to 8 ; 5) on both existing and novel verb stimuli ...
Clahsen +17 more
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German particle verbs and pleonastic prepositions [PDF]
, 2006 This paper discusses the behaviour of German particle verbs formed by two-way prepositions in combination with pleonastic PPs including the verb particle as a preposition.
Rehbein, Ines, van Genabith, Josef
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Neural specificity for grammatical operations is revealed by content-independent fMR adaptation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 The ability to generate novel sentences depends on cognitive operations that specify the syntactic function of nouns, verbs, and other words retrieved from the mental lexicon.
Kevin A. Shapiro +5 more
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Examination of some verbs that are used continuously in Bekilli disrict of Denizli province
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023 Bekilli district of Denizli province is located in the northern part of the city. Bekilli, which was a part of Çal district until 1987, gained district status after this date. In the 13th century, among the Oghuz tribes, the Kayı tribe, the Avşar tribe,
Olcay Güntülü ÖZAKAYDIN
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Effect of verb argument structure on picture naming in children with and without specific language impairment (SLI) [PDF]
, 2012 Background: This study investigated verb argument structure effects in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Aims: A picture-naming paradigm was used to compare the response times and naming accuracy for nouns and verbs with differing ...
Andreu Barrachina, Llorenç +3 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Previous research suggests that on-line access to lexically-stored verb argument structures is relatively preserved in some people with aphasia[9] (PWAs), despite their increased difficulty in producing verbs as compared to nouns[2].
Rebecca A Hayes +2 more
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