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dc.contributor.authorMinor, Sergey
dc.contributor.authorMitrofanova, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorGuajardo, Gustavo
dc.contributor.authorVos, Myrte Titia
dc.contributor.authorRamchand, Gillian C
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-01T09:34:18Z
dc.date.available2024-02-01T09:34:18Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-10
dc.description.abstractThe study employed a combination of a picture selection task and Visual World eye-tracking to investigate the processing of grammatical aspect (perfective vs. imperfective) in three languages: Russian, Spanish and English. In order to probe into the cognitive representations triggered by the aspectual forms we contrasted visual representations of dierent temporal portions of telic events—a snapshot of the process stage (ongoing event) and a snapshot of the immediate aftermath of the event/the result state (completed event). In all three languages, the gaze patterns and o ine responses revealed a strong preference for representations of ongoing events in the imperfective condition. This confirms that the imperfective forms in all the three languages draw attention to the in-progress portion of a telic event. In the perfective condition, however, we found robust dierences. Russian uses verbal prefixes to mark perfective aspect, and our results suggest that perfective telic verbs in Russian strongly highlight the result state of an event. In Spanish, the perfective past tense form (Preterite) also highlights event completion, but to a lesser extent than in Russian—in line with its less restrictive semantics in not requiring an inherent boundary. In contrast to Russian and Spanish, English speakers did not show a preference for representations of completed events in the perfective (Simple Past) condition. This suggests that the English Simple Past form does not encode a preferential cognitive salience for either the activity portion of an event or its result state, and lends support to the analysis of the English Simple Past as a non-aspectual tense form.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMinor, Mitrofanova, Guajardo, Vos, Ramchand. Aspect processing across languages: A visual world eye-tracking study. Frontiers in Language Sciences. 2023:1-14en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2104404
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/flang.2022.1052205
dc.identifier.issn2813-4605
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/32805
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen_US
dc.relation.journalFrontiers in Language Sciences
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleAspect processing across languages: A visual world eye-tracking studyen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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