Thematic role focusing by participle inflections: evidence from conceptual combination |
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Authors: | Ferretti Todd R Gagné Christina L McRae Ken |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada. tferrett@wiu.ca |
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Abstract: | The authors examined how people integrate knowledge of agents and patients of events with the temporal and causal properties of present and past participles to constrain interpretation of isolated participle-noun phrases like arresting cop and arrested crook. Good-agent head nouns were more easily combined with present participles (e.g., arresting cop) than with past participles (e.g., arrested cop), and the reverse was true for good patients. Furthermore, present-participle good-patient phrases (e.g., serving customer) were often interpreted as verb phrases. This research provides further evidence of the interaction between morphosyntactic cues and world knowledge of events in language comprehension. |
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