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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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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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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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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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Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs [PDF]
, 2012 The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in actual usage events on shaping the
Wang Ben Pin-Yun
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, 2019 This paper presents a puzzle involving embedded attitude reports. We resolve the puzzle by arguing that attitude verbs take restricted readings: in some environments the denotation of attitude verbs can be restricted by a given proposition.
Blumberg, Kyle, Holguín, Ben
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Semantic and pragmatic motivations for constructional preferences: a corpus-based study of provide, supply, and present [PDF]
, 2011 A select group of transfer verbs can enter into four different constructions: the ditransitive construction (He provided John the money), the prepositional-dative construction (He provided the money to John), a construction with a prepositional theme (He
De Clerck, Bernard +2 more
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Spontaneous speech: Quantifying daily communication in Spanish-speaking individuals with aphasia.
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Observable disruptions in spontaneous speech are among the most prominent characteristics of aphasia. The potential of language production analyses in discourse contexts to reveal subtle language deficits has been progressively exploited, becoming ...
Silvia Martínez-Ferreiro +2 more
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Grammatical versus lexical words in theory and aphasia: Integrating linguistics and neurolinguistics
Glossa, 2018 The distinction between grammatical and lexical words is standardly dealt with in terms of a semantic distinction between function and content words or in terms of distributional distinctions between closed and open classes.
Kasper Boye, Roelien Bastiaanse
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Brain Sciences, 2022 Verbs are central to the syntactic structure of sentences, and, thus, important for learning one’s native language. This study examined how children visually inspect events as they hear, and do not hear, a new verb.
Jane B. Childers +5 more
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