mental verb
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalandverb
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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verb
noun[C]
uk/vɜːb/us/vɝːb/
a word or phrase that describes an action, condition, ...
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(Definition ofmentalandverbfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmental verb
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All verbs included in the analysis were further categorized into action verbs, stative verbs and mental verbs.
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A few cross-cultural studies have looked at how differences in a specific language's system of mental verbs may affect children's acquisition of theory of mind.
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His speech should not be limited by cognitive or linguistic limitations related to the use of mental verbs.
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Mental verbs are infrequent in both types of statements.
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This is even more the case for mental verbs, such as feel, which describe events or states that cannot be seen.
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They found that the average age for children's first use of mental verbs was 2;2, and the usage thereafter increased for all children.
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We do not deny that sentence structure is important in the child's language development in general and perhaps in learning the meaning of mental verbs.
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Understanding the pragmatic ends toward which mental verbs are aimed is a critical plank in the research agenda for social constructivists.
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Early comprehension of mental verbs : think and know.
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When making justifications, children used mental verbs and the causal connectives because and so rather infrequently.
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Table 5 shows that the use of mental verbs patterned similarly in the source statements and the justifications.
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Children's developing understanding of mental verbs : remember, know and guess.
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Grammatical forms found within the grammar of abnormality include adverbs and adverbials that denote the unexpected and unaccountable, as well as mental verbs and place adverbs.
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The linguistic elements of mental verbs and causal connectives are generally infrequent in justifications, but self-expansion statements use mental verbs somewhat more, and causal connectives significantly more, than conflict statements.
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Children's developing understanding of mental verbs : remember, know, and guess.
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Although causal connectives have previously been often used as the means for determining justifications, the children in this study rarely used causal connectives and mental verbs in statements with justifications.
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