Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II: Verb structure

J. A. Fodor; M. Garrett; T. G. Bever

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Some syntactic determinants of sentential complexity, II: Verb structure

J. A. Fodor, M. Garrett, T. G. Bever

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The effect of the lexical complexity of verbs on the processing of sentences was evaluated in two experiments. Verb complexity was indexed by the number of types of grammatical structure a verb permits (e.g., a verb may be transitive or intransitive and may permit various types of complement structures). Ss' performances in paraphrasing sentences and in solving anagrams containing complex verbs were significantly poorer than their performances with the same sentences and anagrams containing less complex verbs.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	453-461
Number of pages	9
Journal	Perception & Psychophysics
Volume	3
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03205754
State	Published - Nov 1968
Externally published	Yes

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