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Verb complexity effects: Thematic role assignment

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1996
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The aim of this project was to clarify the findings of Shapiro and Levine (1990) by exploring post-verb argument structure complexity effects. Three verb types, transitives, datives and obligatory three-place, were probed at four positions during an on-line sentence processing task that utilized cross-modal naming as the secondary task in a reaction time paradigm. No significant verb x probe interaction was found at any probe position with any of the three verb types. Two possible explanations are given for this pattern of results: (1) the choice of cross-modal naming as the secondary task; and, (2) the high variability of reaction times among subjects.
Title: Verb complexity effects: Thematic role assignment.
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Name(s): Brookins, Bari Lynn.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Hock, Howard S., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1996
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: pdf
Extent: 55 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: The aim of this project was to clarify the findings of Shapiro and Levine (1990) by exploring post-verb argument structure complexity effects. Three verb types, transitives, datives and obligatory three-place, were probed at four positions during an on-line sentence processing task that utilized cross-modal naming as the secondary task in a reaction time paradigm. No significant verb x probe interaction was found at any probe position with any of the three verb types. Two possible explanations are given for this pattern of results: (1) the choice of cross-modal naming as the secondary task; and, (2) the high variability of reaction times among subjects.
Identifier: 15295 (digitool), FADT15295 (IID), fau:12066 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1996.
Subject(s): Psycholinguistics
Comprehension
Semantics
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