The Interaction of Case with Aspect and Number

Kagan, Olga

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“…First, it is important to test whether (as expected) aspectual effects would work in the opposite direction, that is, whether viewers’ prior exposure to telic sentences would shift unbounded event construals to bounded ones. Second, given the well‐known variability in how aspect is encoded across languages (Filip, 2008; Kagan, 2010; Mittwoch, 2019), it is important to move beyond English and ask whether aspectual sentences cross‐linguistically would create similar effects.…”

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Aspectual Processing Shifts Visual Event Apprehension

Vurgun,

Ji,

Papafragou

2024

Cognitive Science

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What is the relationship between language and event cognition? Past work has suggested that linguistic/aspectual distinctions encoding the internal temporal profile of events map onto nonlinguistic event representations. Here, we use a novel visual detection task to directly test the hypothesis that processing telic versus atelic sentences (e.g., “Ebony folded a napkin in 10 seconds” vs. “Ebony did some folding for 10 seconds”) can influence whether the very same visual event is processed as containing distinct temporal stages including a well‐defined endpoint or lacking such structure, respectively. In two experiments, we show that processing (a)telicity in language shifts how people later construe the temporal structure of identical visual stimuli. We conclude that event construals are malleable representations that can align with the linguistic framing of events.

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