Delaying the appearance of a verb in a noun-verb dependency tends to increase processing difficulty at the verb; one explanation for this locality effect is decay and/or interference of the noun in ...

1 School of Foreign Studies, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China 2 Center for Language Cognition and Assessment, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China Distinct from nominal ...

As a teacher, identifying parts of speech can seem like a daunting task. Yet, teaching or reviewing the concept of linking verbs, predicate adjectives, and predicate nouns is important in order to ...