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  • Cognitive Science
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Meaning variability in language often relies on underspecification and coercion.
  • Distinguishing between these two interpretive mechanisms for specific linguistic phenomena remains a challenge.
  • Motion verbs combined with directional phrases present a case study for this theoretical debate.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To experimentally determine the aspectual value of standard motion verbs.
  • To differentiate between underspecification and coercion in verb-adverbial interactions.
  • To test the hypotheses of the Underspecification and Coercion Accounts.

Main Methods:

  • A self-paced reading study involving motion verbs and directional phrases.
  • Integration of durative/completive temporal adverbials to probe aspectual interpretation.
  • Complementary corpus and completion studies to support reading time data.

Main Results:

  • Motion verbs demonstrate aspectual underspecification, readily accepting both telic and atelic directional phrases.
  • Processing costs increase significantly when temporal adverbials mismatch the aspectual interpretation of the verb-phrase combination.
  • Coercion is identified as the mechanism responsible for processing difficulties in such mismatches.

Conclusions:

  • Standard motion verbs are inherently aspectually underspecified.
  • The interaction between motion verbs, directional phrases, and temporal adverbials provides evidence for both underspecification and coercion.
  • Coercion serves as a mechanism to resolve aspectual conflicts, incurring processing costs.