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Is More Always Better for Verbs? Semantic Richness Effects and Verb Meaning

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, May 2016
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Title
Is More Always Better for Verbs? Semantic Richness Effects and Verb Meaning
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2016
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00798
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David M Sidhu, Alison Heard, Penny M Pexman

Abstract

We examined how several semantic richness variables contribute to verb meaning, across a number of tasks. Because verbs can vary in tense, and the manner in which tense is coded (i.e., regularity), we also examined how these factors moderated the effects of semantic richness. In Experiment 1 we found that age of acquisition (AoA), valence, arousal and embodiment predicted faster response times in LDT. In Experiment 2 we examined a particular semantic richness variable, verb embodiment, and found that it was moderated by tense and regularity. In Experiment 3a we found that AoA predicted faster response times in verb reading. Finally, in Experiment 3b, semantic diversity predicted response times in a past tense generation task, either facilitating or inhibiting responses for regular or irregular verbs, respectively. These results demonstrate that semantic richness variables contribute to verb meaning even when verbs are presented in isolation, and that these effects depend on several factors unique to verbs.

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Country Count As %
Brazil 1 3%
Unknown 36 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 24%
Student > Master 4 11%
Researcher 3 8%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 8%
Other 6 16%
Unknown 9 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 14 38%
Linguistics 5 14%
Social Sciences 3 8%
Neuroscience 2 5%
Unspecified 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 11 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 July 2016.
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#13,394,314
of 22,869,263 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#13,024
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#174,798
of 338,907 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#241
of 437 outputs
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