“…For the accomplishment sentences, the accuracy rates showed reverse facilitation, with matched perfectives being slightly higher than matched imperfectives, both in the subject ies, which focused on accomplishment verbs only, were that the human mind converges on a mental representation more readily in the presence of a perfective aspect marker-in large part, because perfective markers encode a telic (i.e., endpoint) interpretation. Following this line of thinking, noticeably longer RTs for imperfective accomplishment sentences could then be interpreted as slower simulations and slower convergence upon a mental representation of the event, attributed in part to the fact that imperfective markers typically allow internal access to events, which could then prolong cognitive processing due to their focus on other aspects of the event, such as location, agent, and instrument (Madden & Zwaan, 2003; see also Ferretti et al, 2007). However, although telicity may account for perfective facilitation with accomplishment verbs, it cannot explain why there is imperfective facilitation with activity verbs.…”