We compare two different ways of quantization a simple sequential game Cat’s Dilemma in the context of the debate on intransitive and transitive preferences. This kind of analysis can have essential meaning for the research on the artificial intelligence (some possibilities are discussed). Nature has both properties transitive and intransitive and maybe quantum models can be more able to captur...

In Härtl (2003)), it was shown that congruous pictures were size categorized – i.e. a conceptual task – slower than incongruous ones subsequent to a localization expression containing a prepositional phrase (as in to stick s.th. on the ...). No such difference showed up with the intransitive prepositional variants, i.e. particles as in to stick s.th. on. In the current study, transitive activit...

When learning verb meanings, learners capitalize on universal linguistic correspondences between syntactic and semantic structure. For instance, upon hearing the transitive sentence "the boy is glorping the girl" two-year olds prefer a two-participant event (e.g., a boy making a girl spin) over two simultaneous one-participant events (a boy and a girl separately spinning). However, two- and thr...

The present paper focuses on the Mandarin Intransitive keflexive Verbs. These verbs, such as zi-sha 'to commit suicide', and zi fen 'to burn oneself, are formed with a reflexive morpheme zi-'self' and a root verb. Take the verb zi-sha 'to commit suicide' for example, the reflexive morpheme contributes the reflexive meaning and the root verb sha 'to kill' contributes the meaning`to kill'; hence,...

Several previous studies (B. C. Adams, C. Clifton, & D. C. Mitchell, 1998; D. C. Mitchell, 1987; R. P. G. van Gompel & M. J. Pickering, 2001) have explored the question of whether the parser initially analyzes a noun phrase that follows an intransitive verb as the verb's direct object. Three eye-tracking experiments examined this issue in more detail. Experiment 1 replicated the finding that re...

Social impairments in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) may be in part due to difficulty perceiving and recognizing the actions of others. Evidence from imitation studies, which involves both observation and execution of an action, suggests differences, in individuals with ASD, between the ability to imitate goal-directed actions involving objects (transitive actions) and the abi...

This reseacrh contains: (1) morphosyntax and semantic-syntax classification of clitic verb (2) shape in Lamaholot language Lewokluok dialect (BLDL). In on BLDL only consist action verbs process-action syntactically is a transitive (V. trans+action). addition, proclitic also have semantic features but an intransitive intrans+action). does not which ditranstive category. While the enclitic consis...

Recent work recognizes that lexical category can be relevant for phonology, because phonological processes and phonotactics are sometimes category-sensitive (Smith 1997, 2001; Myers 2000; Bobaljik 2008; see also Cohen 1964; Chomsky & Halle 1968; Postal 1968; Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1977). Moreover, there are strong cross-linguistic tendencies concerning the nature of phonological differences be...

The present investigation demonstrates that incremental sentence processing is guided by principles of minimal structure building. Event-related potentials (ERPs) to a local number mismatch between an auxiliary and a subsequent noun phrase revealed that the subject preference, a strategy known to be very robust during processing, can be overridden when information about a verb's valency (i.e., ...