TY - GEN
T1 - Event Participants and Verbal Semantics
T2 - 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
AU - Rissman, Lilia
AU - Rawlins, Kyle
AU - Landau, Barbara
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by NSF IGERT grant #9972807, NIH RO1 DC000491 and a Radboud Excellence Initiative fellowship awarded to Lilia Rissman. Thank you to Paul Smolensky, Akira Omaki, Colin Wilson, Jenny Culbertson. Thank you also to research assistants Aurora Martinez del Rio, Danny Salevitz, Yijia Hu, Michelle Chu, Lina Montoya, Allison Bellows and Christine Cheseborough.
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Verbs are widely analyzed as functions taking a discrete number of arguments (e.g., drink has two arguments but give has three). Recent studies, however, suggest that English verbs encode Instruments as more or less salient (e.g., the Instrument is more salient for slice, less salient for eat). We conducted a judgment task with adult speakers of Spanish and Mandarin and found that verbs in these languages also encode Instruments as having a relative degree of salience, inconsistent with the discrete model of participant encoding.
AB - Verbs are widely analyzed as functions taking a discrete number of arguments (e.g., drink has two arguments but give has three). Recent studies, however, suggest that English verbs encode Instruments as more or less salient (e.g., the Instrument is more salient for slice, less salient for eat). We conducted a judgment task with adult speakers of Spanish and Mandarin and found that verbs in these languages also encode Instruments as having a relative degree of salience, inconsistent with the discrete model of participant encoding.
KW - argument structure
KW - event representation
KW - experimental semantics
KW - thematic roles
KW - verbal semantics
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85139396066
T3 - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019
SP - 960
EP - 966
BT - Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
PB - The Cognitive Science Society
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 27 July 2019
ER -