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Volume 6, Issue 3
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Abstract

Henry gave Elsa a kissgivekissgivea kissWe test two approaches to light verb constructions: (1) joint predication in light verb constructions is stored as pre-specified, and their high frequency predicts less processing cost. (2) Joint predication in light verb constructions is built in real-time. The entailed extra-syntactic composition predicts greater cost.Results from a cross-modal lexical decision task show delayed, higher reaction times for light verb constructions, supporting (2), which is consistent with a linguistic architecture that has partly autonomous lexico-semantic storage and processing.

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2011-01-01
2025-04-21

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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): argument structure; cross-modal lexical decision; light verb construction; linguistic architecture; processing; semantic composition; syntactic composition

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