How Eventive is this Noun? An Analysis of Linguistic Features Influencing Subjective Interpretation Among Speakers
Abstract One of the most important semantic features in language processing is that which distinguishes objects from events. This study starts with a questionnaire in which 62 informants assign a value on a 6-position Likert scale to the eventivity of 84 names in Spanish, in such a way that 1 is completely eventive and 6 is not at all eventive (that is, an object). The aim of this study is to correlate the scores obtained to various characteristics of these nouns. As a result of this research, we have found three types of interesting data: nouns were interpreted as more eventive if they established a direct relationship with a verb in the lexicon. Especially if this relationship was manifest through morphology; Furthermore, there is a correlation between the degree of subjective eventivity and the frequency of appearance of these nouns in certain contexts; finally, names were interpreted less eventual if they were ambiguous than if they were not. All these indications seem to indicate that the semantic intuition of the speakers responds more to the position of the nouns in the lexicon than to a possible semantic decomposition.
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Chung, S. (2012). Are lexical categories universal? The view from Chamorro. Theoretical Linguistics, 38(1-2), 1-56.
Clark, A. (2006). Language, embodiment, and the cognitive niche. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(8), 370-374.
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Fábregas, A. (2010). Los nombres de evento: clasificación y propiedades en español. Pragmalingüística, 18, 54-73.
Feng, S., Qi, R., Yang, J., Yu, A. y Yang, Y. (2020). Neural correlates for nouns and verbs in phrases during syntactic and semantic processing: An fmri study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 53, 100860.
Geng, S., Molinaro, N., Timofeeva, P., Quiñones, I., Carreiras, M. y Amoruso, L. (2022). Oscillatory dynamics underlying noun and verb production in highly proficient bilinguals. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 764.
Hoey, M. (2005). Lexical priming: A new theory of words and language. Psychology Press.
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Horno Chéliz, M. D. C., Timor, R. y Sarasa, A. (2017). ¿Qué ocurre cuando comparamos dos unidades léxicas sinónimas? Un estudio psicolingüístico sobre la naturaleza de la sinonimia. RLA. Revista de lingüística teórica y aplicada, 55(1), 149-168.
Jurafsky, D. (2003). Probabilistic modeling in psycholinguistics: Linguistic comprehension and production. Probabilistic linguistics, 21, 76-126.
Li, P., Jin, Z., y Tan, L. H. (2004). Neural representations of nouns and verbs in Chinese: an fMRI study. Neuroimage, 21(4), 1533-1541.
López Cortés, N. y Horno-Chéliz, M. D. C. (2023). La activación del significado adecuado: un estudio experimental sobre palabras ambiguas en contexto. Philologica Canariensia, 29, 193-212.
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Resnik, G. (2014). Los nombres eventivos no deverbales en español [Tesis Doctoral, Universitat Pompeu Fabra].
Romagno, D. (2012). Grammatical categories and semantic distinctions: from linguistics to neuroscience. Studi e Saggi Linguistici, 50(1), 135-161.
Scott, S. K. (2006). Language processing: The neural basis of nouns and verbs. Current Biology, 16(8), R295-R296.
Shapiro, K. A., Moo, L. R. y Caramazza, A. (2006). Cortical signatures of noun and verb production. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(5), 1644-1649.
Swinney, D. (1979). Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)consideration of context effects. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior,18-6, 645-659.
Tomasino, B., Tronchin, G., Marin, D., Maieron, M., Fabbro, F., Cubelli, R., Miran, S. y Luzzati, C. (2019). Noun–verb naming dissociation in neurosurgical patients. Aphasiology, 33(12), 1418-1440.
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Vonk, J. M., Obler, L. K. y Jonkers, R. (2019). Levels of abstractness in semantic noun and verb processing: The role of sensory-perceptual and sensory-motor information. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 48, 601-615.
Xia, Q. y Peng, G. (2022). The roles of object and action, and concreteness and imageability, in the distinction between nouns and verbs: An erp study on monosyllabic words in Chinese. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 61, 101026.
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