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Event Segmentation

Events occur in a continuous stream but we think and talk about them in terms of discreet units. This project investigates how different syntactic structures are used to linguistically segment events and the possible relationships between these linguistic segmentations and our conceptual segmentations of events.

Contact person

Rebecca Defina

Last checked 2011-11-21 by Mark Dingemanse

Project
coordinators:

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics


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Wundtlaan 1
6525 XD Nijmegen
The Netherlands

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P.O. Box 310
6500 AH Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Phone:  +31-24-3521911
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