The Role of Verbs in Sentence Production.

ABSTRACT: To investigate the role of verbs in sentence production, the experiment reported here employed a simple sentence elicitation technique based on separate elicitor images for the different sentence constituents: subject, verb, and verbal modifier. This permitted presenting them in different temporal configurations to see whether the time taken to start uttering the subject of a sentence was contingent on having access to information about the action that would determine verb selection. The results show that sentence onset latencies varied in relation to the presentation of the verb elicitor, suggesting that sentence processing depends crucially on having access to the information pertaining to the verb. What is more, increases in the lexical frequency of the actual verbs used significantly r

SUBMITTER: Anton-Mendez I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042407 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature