**Project outline for 2010_6**
*Keywords: Psych Verbs; Emotion Verbs; Duration*
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**Publications:**
Hartshorne, O'Donnell, Sudo, Uruwashi, Lee, and Snedeker (in press). Psych verbs, the Linking Problem, and the Acquisition of Language. Data for Exp. 1.
**Team:**
1. Joshua Hartshorne
2. Jesse Snedeker
**Data Collection:**
gameswithwords.org
**Description**
Forty-eight native English-speaking adults, ages 19-77 (M=38, SD=14), were recruited and tested through an Internet experiment portal (gameswithwords.org). Additional participants who were not native English speakers, did not complete the experiment, or who were under 18 years old were excluded. Participants were given sentences like “Sally frightened Mary” and asked to rate how long the mental state was likely to have lasted: seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, or years. We tested 42 fear-type and 216 frighten-type verbs listed in Levin (1993). The order of verbs was randomized for each participant, as was which names went with which verbs (we used the 70 common female names used in Exp. 1).
**Notes:**
Note that in this and other gameswithwords.org experiments, subjects of age 1 or 2 can generally be assumed to be the experimenter (who usually listed himself that way during testing).
