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    "pk": 49611,
    "title": "Temporal proximity inferences in complex sentence comprehension: Evidence from English complement and relative clauses",
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    "abstract": "In language comprehension, mental representations of temporal relations between described situations are often construed by inference. While the basis for these inferences remains unclear, growing evidence suggests that abstract predicate properties – such as dynamicity and causal structure – play a crucial role in temporal event construal. Across two self-paced reading experiments, replicating and extending Gennari (2004), we find that temporal proximity inferences are shaped by these properties, but only for stative predicates that generally encode non-dynamic situations without causal structure: Participants consistently expected states to overlap in time, in both complement (Experiment 1) and relative clause constructions (Experiment 2). These findings indicate that temporal proximity inferences arise as a general feature of (non)-dynamicity, supporting models of language comprehension that prioritize abstract event structural properties in shaping temporal inferences.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Linguistics; Psychology; Cognition of Time; Language Comprehension; Pragmatics; Semantics of language; Computer-based experiment"
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    "section": "Papers with Poster Presentation",
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        {
            "first_name": "Elena",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Marx",
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            "institution": "Central European University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Eva",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Wittenberg",
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            "institution": "Central European University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T19:00:00+01:00",
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