Comprehending the present perfect Lifetime Effect: integrating lifetime information with tense and aspect during reading

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Using eye-tracking during reading, we investigated the integration of knowledge of a referent’s lifetime with tense and aspect during language processing. Sentences defining the lifetime of cultural figures were followed by descriptions of their accomplishments using verb tenses infelicitous with deceased referents: the present perfect and simple future. In comparison to the ‘living-present perfect’ condition, the ‘dead-present perfect’ elicited longer reading times and lower ratings. The ‘dead-simple future’ was reliably rejected, but elicited no reading time differences compared to the ‘living-simple future’. The results imply that lifetime knowledge modulates the processing of temporal verb morphology, but does so differently between tenses.

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