Verb Aspect and Situation Models

Magliano, Joseph P.; Schleich, Michelle C.

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“…As was reported in Magliano and Schleich (2000), imperfective aspect imposes an ongoing perspective for events, enhancing their retention in active working memory, whereas perfective aspect, with its terminative (or bounded) focus, yields a shorter retention rate, with activation of the events in working memory decaying much more quickly. It is thus not surprising that perfective sentences are typically used to foreground and rapidly advance a story plot, whereas imperfective sentences are frequently used as specificational or backgrounding information in narratives to enhance text cohesion (Hopper, 1979).…”

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“…Magliano and Schleich (2000) showed that imperfectives yield slower decay rates in sentence recognition tasks. In their study, participants were asked to read English passages and to subsequently decide whether target verb phrases (either perfective or imperfective) appeared in those narratives.…”

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“…Findings in the realm of temporal information are also consistent with this view. When an event is present in the narrated situation, it is more accessible to the comprehender than when it is no longer going on (Anderson, Garrod, & Sanford, 1983;Carreiras, Carriedo, Alonso, & Fernandez, 1997;Magliano & Schleich, 2000;Zwaan, 1996). Our present purpose is to extend these findings.…”

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The presence of an event in the narrated situation affects its availability to the comprehender

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Narrative descriptions of events often depart from how these events would have occurred in "real time." For example, narratives often contain time shifts in which events that are irrelevant to the plot are omitted. Zwaan (1996) has shown that these time shifts may affect on-line comprehension. Specifically, they are associated with increases in processing load and a deactivation of previous information. The experiments in the present article show that the situation is more complex. Specifically, there is only a deactivation of previous events if they are not assumed to be ongoing after a time shift. Furthermore, explicit discontinuations of events, as in he stopped walking also lead to deactivations when compared with explicit continuations and resumptions.The general assumption in research on narrative comprehension is that comprehenders are influenced by the nature of the situation that is being described. The idea is that comprehenders place themselves, to some extent, "in" the narrated situation. Such a shift from an actual situation to a described situation has been termed a deictic shift (Duchan, Bruder, & Hewitt, 1995; see also MacWhinney, 1999). As a consequence of this deictic shift, people, objects, and events that are in the narrated situation should be more accessible to comprehenders than people, objects, and events that are not. That is, nodes that code for these situational entities should be more activated when the entities are present in the situation than when they are not.Zwaan (1999b) has reviewed various findings in the literature that are consistent with this idea. Objects that are in the situation yield shorter recognition latencies to their associated words than do objects that are not in the situation. For instance, response latencies to the word cake are faster when the text states that Mary baked cookies and cake than when the text states that Mary baked cookies but no cake, despite the fact that the word occurs in both sentences (Macdonald & Just, 1989). This is not due simply to the presence of the word not. Kaup (1999) obtained similar effects for He destroyed the desk, but not the table. In this case, the object qualified by not was in the situation and its associated word yielded faster recognition responses. Similarly, a memory node that codes forWe thank Eileen Goodwin, Loretta Handegard, LaRicka Wingate, and Daisy Winkler for their assistance with data collection and Mike Rinck and Tom Trabasso for their helpful comments on a previous version. Address all correspondence to R. A. Zwaan,

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“…Esto fue lo que algunos autores (Magliano y Schleich, 2000, Zwaan, Madden y Stanfield, 2001Fauconnier, 1994) llamaron la hipótesis de accesibilidad, la cual predice que el modo subjuntivo cierra un espacio mental con su realidad correspondiente, haciéndolo menos accesible; en cambio, el modo indicativo, abre un espacio particular B, por tanto la información contenida en este espacio B pasa a un espacio más alto (R) que, desde luego es más accesible.…”

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El valor del tiempo en las expresones contrafactuales

Urrutia¹,

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2015

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*La presente investigación fue desarrollada en el marco del proyecto Neurocog de la Agencia Canaria ACIISI y el proyecto europeo FEDER. Cuenta con el apoyo del proyecto SEJ2004 value oF TiMe in counTerFacTual expressions AbstractThere are several grammatical resources to express unreality status of counterfactuals, including mode selection and the tense. In turn, different disciplines have studied the counterfactual expression, whose main theoretical assumptions are discussed in the current article. We analyze the prototypical counterfactual expressions like "If I had won the lottery, I would have bought a Mercedes Benz" in comparison with other tense forms that express impossibility or probability as in the case of prefactuals.

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Verb Aspect and Situation Models

Cited by 130 publications

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Aspectual asymmetries in the mental representation of events: Role of lexical and grammatical aspect

Aspectual asymmetries in the mental representation of events: Role of lexical and grammatical aspect

The presence of an event in the narrated situation affects its availability to the comprehender

El valor del tiempo en las expresones contrafactuales

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