Processing Verb Meanings and the Declarative/Procedural Model: A Developmental Study.

ABSTRACT: According to the Declarative/Procedural Model, the lexicon depends on declarative memory while grammar relies on procedural memory. Furthermore, procedural memory underlies the sequential processing of language. Thus, this system is important for predicting the next item in a sentence. Verb processing represents a good candidate to test this assumption. Semantic representations of verbs include information about the protagonists in the situations they refer to. This semantic knowledge is acquired implicitly and used during verb processing, such that the processing of a verb preactivates its typical patients (e.g., the window for break). Thus, determining how the patient typicality effect appears during children's cognitive development could provide evidence about the memory s

SUBMITTER: Stefaniak N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8514706 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature