Building aspectual interpretations online
Linguistic events have long been known to systematically differ with respect to whether they proceed to a natural and necessary end point, or not. Semantic and syntactic accounts of these systematic differences disagree as to which kind of event is more complex, and thus more computationally costly,...
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2014
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| author | Husband, M Stockall, L |
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| description | Linguistic events have long been known to systematically differ with respect to whether they proceed to a natural and necessary end point, or not. Semantic and syntactic accounts of these systematic differences disagree as to which kind of event is more complex, and thus more computationally costly, but both approaches identify the VP (not the verb alone) as the domain for aspectual interpretation. We review the existing processing literature, which is broadly consistent with VP-domain hypotheses but does not address the issue of representational complexity. We present a series of experiments that provide a more detailed look at the time course of aspectual interpretation, providing clear support for the VP hypothesis. We also argue that syntactic and semantic complexity effects can be seen in aspectual processing. Terminative syntactic structure and durative semantic interpretation are both costly. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:15d8cf79-35e5-4578-8ced-ce72b61105d12022-03-26T10:27:51ZBuilding aspectual interpretations onlineBook sectionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:15d8cf79-35e5-4578-8ced-ce72b61105d1PsychologyEnglishSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer International Publishing2014Husband, MStockall, Lde Almeida, RManouilidou, CLinguistic events have long been known to systematically differ with respect to whether they proceed to a natural and necessary end point, or not. Semantic and syntactic accounts of these systematic differences disagree as to which kind of event is more complex, and thus more computationally costly, but both approaches identify the VP (not the verb alone) as the domain for aspectual interpretation. We review the existing processing literature, which is broadly consistent with VP-domain hypotheses but does not address the issue of representational complexity. We present a series of experiments that provide a more detailed look at the time course of aspectual interpretation, providing clear support for the VP hypothesis. We also argue that syntactic and semantic complexity effects can be seen in aspectual processing. Terminative syntactic structure and durative semantic interpretation are both costly. |
| spellingShingle | Psychology Husband, M Stockall, L Building aspectual interpretations online |
| title | Building aspectual interpretations online |
| title_full | Building aspectual interpretations online |
| title_fullStr | Building aspectual interpretations online |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building aspectual interpretations online |
| title_short | Building aspectual interpretations online |
| title_sort | building aspectual interpretations online |
| topic | Psychology |
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