Several regions of the posterior-lateral-temporal cortex (PLTC) are reliably recruited when participants read or listen to action verbs, relative to other word and nonword types. This PLTC activation is generally interpreted as reflecting the retrieval of visual-motion features of actions. This interpretation supports the broader theory, that concepts are comprised of sensory-motor features. We...

The study of reporting verbs (RVs) is rarely done by Indonesian scholars. Therefore, this research aimed to investigate how writers used the RVs in article introductions published low-ranking and medium-ranking ELT journals investigating differences usage them both groups journals. This a quantitative approach with comparative design that investigated 40 (SINTA 6: Journal English Language Educa...

We examine closely which predicates fail to allow existential readings for their bare plural objects. We show that, among the verbs, rather than it being the individual level predicates (Carlson 1977) that fail to allow existential readings, it is a narrower set of verbs, which we identify with the “psychological verbs with experiencer subjects” (the psych-ES verbs). We give an explanation whic...

Despite the high productivity in English of denominal verb formation by conversion, a constraint on possible interpretations is identified: intransitive denominal conversion verbs are infelicitous where the source nominal is intended to be an incremental theme (#apple ‘eat apple’), a patient (#shirt ‘wear shirt’), or the holder of a result state (#window ‘open window’). This little-studied cons...

In this paper I look at light verb, serial verb and auxiliary constructions crosslinguistically and try to set up criteria to distinguish these constructions. I argue that while a coherent set of properties can be found to distinguish light verbs from auxiliaries, it is more difficult to find crosslinguistic criteria which set serial verbs apart from light verbs and auxiliaries. This is because...

Speakers should be motivated to produce easy-to-understand sentences, but they must successfully say sentences that are harder to produce. Four experiments assessed how verb bias influences the mention of the optional "that" in sentence-complement structures. Without the "that", such sentences can be incorrectly interpreted as including direct objects (garden paths), and especially so after dir...

UNLABELLED Several recent studies have suggested that young children who stutter (CWS) tend to show depressed lexical performance relative to peers. Given the developmental literature as well as several studies of verb processing in individuals who stutter, verbs may pose a particular challenge for this group. The purpose of the present study was to examine verb use in CWS. In theory, if young ...

Computational verb systems are new systematic frameworks of artificial intelligence by embedding the knowledge and experiences which are expressed or implied by verbs into machine intelligence. It turns out that verbs are very important to describe the dynamics of complexities for the survival of human beings. Verbs are also very important building blocks for transferring and representing human...

This study used keyword method during encoding information in transferring information from short term memory to make the retrieval easier. For this purpose, 50 adult female elementary students were chosen to participate in this study. This study required two groups of learners (control and experimental groups). The experimental group enjoyed some special flashcards which each of them involved ...

A verb is the organizational core of a sentence. Understanding the meaning of the verb is therefore key to understanding the meaning of the sentence. Natural language understanding is the problem of mapping natural language text to its meaning representation: entities and relations anchored to the world. Since verbs express relations over their arguments in text, a lexical resource about verbs ...