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Download full textMacDonald, Maryellen C. – 1987
A study investigated differential processing of adjectival and verbal passives in English, and the implications for linguistic theory. The subjects, 30 native-English-speaking college students, were presented with word triples in which one member was an adjective, one an adjectival passive, and one a verbal passive, and with three two-sentence…
Descriptors: Adjectives, College Students, Comparative Analysis, English
