ERP evidence for telicity effects on syntactic processing in garden-path sentences
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ERP evidence for telicity effects on syntactic processing in garden-path sentences.
Verbs contain multifaceted information about both the semantics of an action, and potential argument structures. Linguistic theory classifies verbs according to whether the denoted action has an inherent (telic) end-point (fall, awaken), or whether it is considered homogenous, or atelic (read, worship). The aim of our study was to examine how this distinction influences on-line sentence process...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain and Language
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0093-934X
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.09.003