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    "pk": 26556,
    "title": "On the psychological reality of linguistic event structures",
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    "abstract": "How language represents meaning remains a central topic of debate in linguistics. On some accounts, the nounphrases in a sentence are identified semantically by a list of independent atomic labels (thematic roles), ordered relative to oneanother depending on the position of the nouns around the verb (e.g., AGENT-THEME-GOAL). Others instead capture suchinterdependencies with complex, non-atomic event structures (e.g., [x CAUSE [y TO-COME-TO-BE-AT z]]). Here, we usestructural priming to investigate the psychological reality of these two theories of semantic representation. On the thematicrole approach, we should expect to see priming between theme-first locatives and prepositional-object datives (both VP-NP-PPsyntactically) precisely because their thematic ordering is consistent across the two constructions. The event structure approachposits no such minimal semantic structural similarity, such that we should not see priming cross-constructionally. We find onlywithin-construction priming (N=52) and not across-construction priming (total N=344), in favor of event structures.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Member Abstracts",
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        {
            "first_name": "Jayden",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Ziegler",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jesse",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Snedeker",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Harvard University",
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        }
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2016-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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