{"pk":24053,"title":"Processing non-culminating accomplishments across languages","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We investigated the processing and interpretation of aspectual coercion in the case of non-culminating accomplishments in English and German. Two offline experiments employing an inference rating task showed that non-culminating accomplishments in both languages actually involve a shift in interpretation. Four self-paced reading experiments furthermore show that this type of coercion isn't costly - neither in German, a language lacking grammatical aspect, nor in English with an aspectual opposition between progressive and perfective forms. This lack of effect in processing coercion was obtained in a first pair of experiments using adverbial modification (sentence-internally) within the verb phrase and in a second pair of experiments in which aspectual coercion was triggered in a subsequent discourse unit. A final stops-making-sense experiment replicates the lack of effect for English and furthermore shows that the processing of non-culminating accomplishments does not incur a processing effect even in a task calling for immediate full interpretation.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Language understanding; Pragmatics; Reading; Reasoning; Semantics; Cross-linguistic analysis"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1mb5x4cc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Oliver","middle_name":"","last_name":"Bott","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""},{"first_name":"Torgrim","middle_name":"","last_name":"Solstad","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jens","middle_name":"","last_name":"Michaelis","name_suffix":"","institution":"Bielefeld University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24053/galley/13647/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24053/galley/21475/download/"}]}