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    "title": "No evidence for culmination inferences based on Hindi ergative marking",
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    "abstract": "<p>Prediction, both on the syntactic and the semantic level, is a central process in language comprehension. For instance, people predict aspects of event structure based on morphosyntactic markers on verbs: hearing <em>has peeled</em> directs one's attention towards a culminated event, as opposed to an ongoing event. Here, we ask how general this prediction process is, and specifically, whether it extends to cues outside the predicate, using the Hindi split-ergative system as case study. Ergativity allows properties of an event to be predicted on the subject, notably a constituent outside the Verb Phrase. In four studies, we map out the role subject marking plays for prediction of event properties in comprehension. Our results show that in some offline judgments, ergativity is a strong predictor of culminated events; but the cue provided by ergative marking is not taken into account during incremental comprehension, questioning accounts of automatically triggered culmination inferences in ergative constructions as well as providing evidence for a limit of predictive processing.</p>",
    "language": "eng",
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        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
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            "first_name": "Myrte",
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            "institution": "UiT the Arctic university of Norway",
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            "institution": "Central European University",
            "department": "Cognitive Science Department"
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    "date_submitted": "2024-09-16T12:59:26.051000-07:00",
    "date_accepted": "2025-04-02T16:11:18.739000-07:00",
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