The retrieval of syntactic and semantic information in the production of verbs.

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In Italian, there are two aspectual auxiliaries:
essere (to be) and avere (to have). According to the syntactic hypothesis, aspectual auxiliary assignment in Italian is a syntactic phenomenon. Using the picture-word interference paradigm, Experiment 1 tested the predictions of this view. Results failed to support the syntactic hypothesis but could be explained within a semantic framework:
A verb's thematic grid is involved in aspectual auxiliary assignment. Experiment 2 tested this hypothesis. The findings corroborated the predictions. The evidence is interpreted as suggesting the involvement of thematic information in the assignment of the aspectual auxiliary during the production of Italian verbs.Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).

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Author/s: Tabossi, P (P); Collina, S (S); Sanz, M (M);

Affiliation: University of Trieste, Italy. tabossi@univ.trieste.it

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Brain and language (Brain Lang), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2002 Apr-Jun; vol 81 (issue 1-3) : pp 264-75

Dates: Created 2002/06/25; Completed 2002/07/25; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12081398, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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