Title
Document Type
finalproject
Degree
Master of Arts
Department
Department of English
First Advisor's Name
Ellen Thompson
First Advisor's Committee Title
Major professor
Second Advisor's Name
Phillip M. Carter
Second Advisor's Committee Title
committee member
Third Advisor's Name
Tometro Hopkins
Third Advisor's Committee Title
committee member
Date of Defense
4-12-2017
Abstract
A topic in linguistics that requires more psycholinguistic research is that of aspect. In particular, we are interested in how speakers process aspectual structures in terms of telicity and atelicity. For this project, we examine monolingual English speakers and their processing times linked to aspectual interpretation of telic vs. atelic constructions. Our methodology utilizes Response Serial Visual Presentation (RSVP) (Rayner & Sereno, 1994; Garrod, 2006), which presents readers with sequences on a computer screen, and measures their reading times. The subjects are instructed to complete an additional task, such as a comprehension task. We investigate the distinctions in processing time between telic and atelic predicates and relate this data to recent theoretical proposals concerning the structure of telicity.
Identifier
FIDC006307
Recommended Citation
Urbana, J. C., "The Processing of Aspect" (2017). MA in Linguistics Final Projects. 4.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/linguistics_ma/4
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