Is past tense production better modelled by a Single Mechanism or a Words and Rules model? We present data concerning a phenomenon that has not been considered by either model-regular past tense verbs with contrasting phonotactics. One set of verbs contains clusters at the inflected verb end that also occur in monomorphemic words ('monomorphemically legal clusters', MLC) whereas the other has c...

This study aimed to investigate the effects of Systemic Theoretical Instruction (STI), grounded in Socio-cultural Theory and proposed by Gal’perin, on developing Iranian EFL learners’ knowledge of English tense-aspect system. To this end, two low-intermediate classes, including 24 and 21 language learners aged between 12-19, were taught the distinction between simple past and present perfect te...

There are two ways of incorporating temporal distinctions into a system of logic: tensed theories propose to expand standard logic with intensional tense operators; tenseless theories try to make do with the resources of extensional first-order logic, by using quantification over suitably chosen temporal entities, such as metaphysically basic time points or temporal parts. My concern in this pa...

Stress can both impair and enhance memory retrieval. Glucocorticoids mediate impairing effects of stress on memory retrieval. Little is known, however, about factors that facilitate post-stress memory performance. Here, we asked whether stress-induced arousal mediates facilitative stress effects on memory retrieval. Two arousal dimensions were separated: tense arousal, which is characterized by...

The orthodox view of tense mandates that the present tense, when embedded under a past attitude predicate, should give rise soley to what is called "double access" reading (Abusch 1997; Ogihara1996; OgiharaSharvit2012). We consider class presents which locate eventuality neither at time utterance nor attitude. Unlike some other recently identified cases ill-behaved tenses, we argue our are inst...

In the context of Natural Language Processing, annotation is about recovering implicit information that is useful for natural language applications. In this paper we describe a “tense” annotation task for Chinese, a language that does not have grammatical tense, that is designed to infer the temporal location of a situation in relation to the temporal deixis, the moment of speech. If successful...