Normative study of the implicit causality of 100 interpersonal verbs in Spanish

Goikoetxea, Edurne; Pascual, Gema; Acha, Joana

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“…Crinean & Garnham, 2006). Using 100 Spanish verbs, Goikoetxea, Pascual, and Acha (2008) confirmed in both children and adults that AgPat and StimExp were biased towards NP1, and AgEvo and ExpStim verbs towards NP2. This difference was more pronounced for the state verbs than for the action verbs.…”

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Implicit causality bias in English: a corpus of 300 verbs

2010

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This study provides implicit verb causality norms for a corpus of 305 English verbs. A web-based sentence completion study was conducted, with 96 respondents completing fragments such as "John liked Mary because..." The resulting bias scores are provided as supplementary material in the Psychonomic Society Archive, where we also present lexical and semantic verb features, such as the frequency, semantic class and emotional valence. Our results replicate those of previous studies with much smaller numbers of verbs and respondents. Novel effects of gender and its interaction with verb valence illustrate the type of issues that can be investigated using stable norms for a large number of verbs. The corpus will facilitate future studies in a range of areas, including psycholinguistics and social psychology.

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“…Within IC research there is a robust consensus that the IC bias of psych verbs follows the STIMULUS (Brown & Fish, 1983a, 1983bRudolph & Forsterling, 1997); nonetheless non--negligible numbers of exceptions have been reported Goikoetxea et al, 2008 …”

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“…Third, these classes make up the bulk of transitive psych verbs and psych verbs have been played a central role in both IC research and in the study of argument realization (Au, 1986;Brown & Fish, 1983a, 1983bDowty, 1991;Ferstl et al, 2011;Goikoetxea, Pascual & Acha, 2008;Greene & McKoon, 1995;Jackendoff, 1990;Levin, 1993;Levin & Rappaport Hovav, 2005;Pesetsky, 1995;Pinker, 1989;Rudolph & Forsterling, 1997;Semin & Fiedler, 1988, 1991Semin & Marsman, 1994;Talmy, 2000aTalmy, , 2000b. While it is widely believed that class 31.1 (frighten, surprise) verbs are uniformly subject--biased while class 31.2 verbs (fear, love)…”

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“…There is little evidence that such manipulations affect pronoun resolution (Goikoetxea, Pascual & Acha, 2008;Hartshorne, submitted;but see Ferstl et al, 2011).…”

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“…By making these data publically available (see the appendixes) we hope to facilitate the creation of new experiments (see Goikoetxea et al, 2008, for a similar project in Spanish) Finally, this discovery potentially provides a new probe into the semantic structures of verbs. The study of verb meaning within linguistics has focused largely on what constructions (e.g., dative, double object, progressive, etc.)…”

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We present a semantic theory of causal discourse which allows us to derive expectations about upcoming discourse, specifically when to expect various types of explanations. We apply our theory to the phenomenon of implicit causality and show how the semantics of implicit causality verbs interacts with discourse structure. In particular, we show why certain verbs trigger explanations per default, what kind of explanations are triggered, and why these explanations are closely related to specific coreference patterns. Predictions derived from the theory were tested in a large-scale crosslinguistic production study comparing discourse continuations in German and Norwegian -two languages which display differing discourse structuring properties. The production study fully confirmed our predictions, with explanation types and implicit causality bias distributing as expected. The study furthermore reveals that our semantic account of implicit causality is cross-linguistically valid.

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Normative study of the implicit causality of 100 interpersonal verbs in Spanish

Cited by 44 publications

References 46 publications

Implicit causality bias in English: a corpus of 300 verbs

Implicit causality bias in English: a corpus of 300 verbs

Verb argument structure predicts implicit causality: The advantages of finer-grained semantics

From Verbs to Discourse: A Novel Account of Implicit Causality

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