Chapitre D'ouvrage Année : 2024

Empirical contributions to the study of verb aspect from the fields of linguistics and cognitive science

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Abstract The present chapter offers an overview of empirical contributions to the study of the linguistic category of aspect in cognitive science. While a great deal of linguistic research focuses on the study of the language system itself, cognitive researchers are interested in how the human mind processes and represents language. The field of linguistics has provided many interesting perspectives on the temporal nature of language, which should have consequences for the mental representations that we form when understanding language input, called ‘situation models’. Cognitive research has indeed provided empirical tests to explore the extent to which, and how, aspect constrains the mental processes and representations underlying language in use. The present chapter presents an overview of experimental research on aspect, reviewing the questions and specific experimental methodologies used by cognitive researchers to tap into the mental processes and representations associated with the use of grammatical aspect.

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hal-03818124 , version 1 (17-10-2022)

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Carol Madden-Lombardi, Monique Flecken. Empirical contributions to the study of verb aspect from the fields of linguistics and cognitive science. Beyond Aspectual Semantics: Explorations in the pragmatic and cognitive realms of aspect, 1, Oxford University PressOxford, pp.264-279, 2024, ⟨10.1093/oso/9780192849311.003.0011⟩. ⟨hal-03818124⟩
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