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SUBMITTER: Ferretti TR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3371268 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ferretti Todd R TR Rohde Hannah H Kehler Andrew A Crutchley Melanie M
Journal of memory and language 20090512 2
We used an off-line story continuation task and an online ERP reading task to investigate coreferential processing following sentences that portrayed transfer-of-possession events as either ongoing or completed, using imperfective and perfective verb aspect (e.g., Amanda was shifting/shifted some poker chips to Scott). The story continuation task demonstrated that people were more likely to begin continuations with references to the Goal than to the Source, but that perfective aspect strengthene ...[more]