The status of thematic roles such as Agent and Patient in cognitive science is highly
controversial: To some they are universal components of core knowledge, to others they are …

Causal understanding is a defining characteristic of human cognition. Like many animals,
human children learn to control their bodily movements and act effectively in the …

We offer a new account of event representation based on those aspects of object
representation that encode an object's history, and which convey the distinct states that an …

This innovative volume offers a comprehensive account of the study of language change in
verb meaning in the history of the English language. Integrating both the author's previous …

In order to talk about an event they see in the world, speakers have to build a conceptual
representation of that event and generate a message that selects the pragmatically …

ABSTRACT As Pim Levelt proposed in Speaking, language production begins with the
preverbal, conceptual apprehension of an event or state of affairs that the speaker intends to …

Event segmentation is a fundamental process of human cognition that organizes the
continuous flux of activity into discrete, hierarchical units. The mechanism of event …

Although it is widely assumed that the linguistic description of events is based on a
structured representation of event components at the perceptual/conceptual level, little …

Human infants are born with their eyes open and an otherwise limited motor repertoire; thus,
studies measuring infant looking are commonly used to investigate the developmental …

It has long been hypothesized that the linguistic structure of events, including event
participants and their relative prominence, draws on the non-linguistic nature of events and …