IBYME   02675
INSTITUTO DE BIOLOGIA Y MEDICINA EXPERIMENTAL
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Object vs. Subject Experiencer Psych Verbs: a step towards understanding the nature of the syntax-semantics interface
Autor/es:
GATTEI, CAROLINA; WAINSELBOIM, ALEJANDRO; PARÍS, LUIS
Lugar:
Huerta Grande
Reunión:
Congreso; XXVI Congreso Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias; 2011
Institución organizadora:
Sociedad Argentina de Investigación en Neurociencias
Resumen:
In a study about sentence comprehension, Gattei, Vasishth and Dickey (2010) performed a self-paced reading task using Spanish Object Experiencer Psych verbs and Dative Agentive verbs. Both types of verbs differ in the way the semantic arguments are mapped over the syntactic structure, and can therefore show possible differences in processing coming from the syntax-semantics interface. The results showed that when the semantic arguments of a sentence are mapped indirectly over the syntactic structure (e.g. gustarle), readers take longer time to process the second argument than when the semantic arguments are mapped directly (e.g. gritarle). Besides, the study showed that readers also took longer time to read the second argument when the syntactic order was manipulated (SVO vs OVS) and the order of the sentence did not respect the semantic hierarchy required by the verb. The present study investigates whether both effects (type of mapping and semantic hierarchy order) occur due to differences corresponding to the semantic categories of the verbs (Psych vs Agentive verbs) or they also appear when two verbs of the same category (i.e. “gustarle” vs “quererlo/la”) are compared.