{"pk":32311,"title":"Talking the Talk is Like Walking the Walk: A Computational Model of Verbal Aspect","subtitle":null,"abstract":"I describe an implemented computational model of verbal aspect that supports the proposition that the semantics of aspect is grounded in sensory-motor primitives. In this theory, aspectual expressions refer to schematized piocesses that recur in sensory-motor control (such as goal, periodicity, iteration, final state, duration, and parameters such as force and effort). This active model of aspect grounded in sensory-motor primitives is able to model cross-linguistic variation in aspectual expressions while avoiding some paradoxes and problems in model-theoretic and other traditional accounts.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3hr7c70d","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Srini","middle_name":"","last_name":"Narayanan","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Education and Institute for Cognitive Science, University of Colorado","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1997-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32311/galley/23376/download/"}]}