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Implicit verb causality: Context effects on production of events
Description of the project:
- no english description available -
A robust finding in the psycholinguistic literature is that for many interpersonal verbs there is a clear bias concerning which argument caused the state or event described by the verb. In 'Steve praised Ann', Ann is usually considered the cause, whereas in 'Steve charmed Ann', Steve is the preferred cause. This bias is called 'implicit verb causality'. The project investigates the causes and consequences of implicit verb causality, particularly focusing on usage-based explanations.
Runtime:
Start of project: 01.08.2014 End of project: 31.12.2018
Project Management:
Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Ferstl EC, Konieczny L Institut für Psychologie Abt. Kognitionswissenschaft und Genderforschung Hebelstr. 10 79104 Freiburg i. Br. Germany
Phone: 0761 / 2034933 Fax: 0761 / 2034938 Email: sekretariat@cognition.uni-freiburg.de
http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/cognition/
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Financing:
- GRK 1624, DFG
- Übergangsstipendium, DFG
project-related publications:
- van den Hoven E, Ferstl EC: Association with explanation-conveying constructions predicts verbs' implicit causality biases Int J Corpus Linguis, 2017; 22 (4): 521-550. : http://doi:10.1075/ijcl.16121.hov
- van den Hoven E, Ferstl EC: A pragmatic account of implicit causality. 2016 (22nd Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Bilbao, Spanien).
- van den Hoven E, Ferstl EC: A usage-based perspective on implicit causality. 2015 (28th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Los Angeles, CA, USA).
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