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Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing
β Scribed by Roberto G. de Almeida, Christina Manouilidou (eds.)
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 309
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Verbs play an important role in how events, states and other βhappeningsβ are mentally represented and how they are expressed in natural language. Besides their central role in linguistics, verbs have long been prominent topics of research in analytic philosophyβmostly on the nature of events and predicate-argument structureβand a topic of empirical investigation in psycholinguistics, mostly on argument structure and its role in sentence comprehension. More recently, the representation of verb meaning has been gaining momentum as a topic of research in other cognitive science branches, notably neuroscience and the psychology of concepts. The present volume is an expression of this recent surge in the investigation of verb structure and meaning from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science, with up-to-date contributions by theoretical linguists, philosophers, psycholinguists and neuroscientists. The volume presents new theoretical and empirical studies on how verb structure and verb meaning are represented, how they are processed during language comprehension, how they are acquired, and how they are neurologically implemented. Cognitive Science Perspectives on Verb Representation and Processing is a reflection of the recent collaboration between the disciplines that constitute cognitive science, bringing new empirical data and theoretical insights on a key element of natural language and conceptualization.
β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Study of Verbs in Cognitive Science....Pages 3-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
Lexicalizing and Combining....Pages 43-65
Optional Complements of English Verbs and Adjectives....Pages 67-75
The Representation and Processing of Participant Role Information....Pages 77-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Force Dynamics and Directed Change in Event Lexicalization and Argument Realization....Pages 103-129
Neural Processing of Verbal Event Structure: Temporal and Functional Dissociation Between Telic and Atelic Verbs....Pages 131-140
Argument Structure and Time Reference in Agrammatic Aphasia....Pages 141-155
Building Aspectual Interpretations Online....Pages 157-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Visual and Motor Features of the Meanings of Action Verbs: A Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective....Pages 189-212
Which Event Properties Matter for Which Cognitive Task?....Pages 213-234
Verb Representation and Thinking-for-Speaking Effects in SpanishβEnglish Bilinguals....Pages 235-256
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Argument Structure: Relationships Between Theory and Acquisition....Pages 259-280
The Beginning of Morphological Learning: Evidence from Verb Morpheme Processing in Preverbal Infants....Pages 281-297
Back Matter....Pages 299-310
β¦ Subjects
Cognitive Psychology; Psycholinguistics; Neuropsychology
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