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  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Verb arguments typically correspond to event participants.
  • Instrumental participants (e.g., 'with a straw') pose a challenge to this correspondence.
  • Verbs like 'slice' have been debated regarding their argument structure for instruments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how verbs with instrumental participants are represented in the mind.
  • To test the hypothesis that verbs like 'slice' encode three participants, similar to dative verbs.
  • To determine if instruments are treated as distinct verbal arguments.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted two experiments using English speakers.
  • Collected participant judgments on the number of arguments specified by verbs.
  • Analyzed judgments for verbs like 'drink' (control) and 'slice' (instrumental).

Main Results:

  • Judgments indicated that 'slice' does not encode three distinct arguments.
  • A gradient of judgment emerged, with some verbs more strongly eliciting the idea of a specified instrument.
  • This pattern was consistent across individual subjects.

Conclusions:

  • Instruments are not independent verbal arguments.
  • Instrumental participants are represented on a gradient of salience relative to agentive force.
  • Findings inform the relationship between argument structure and event representation in language processing.