Agreement on ""Croak" and "Groan": Theory and Verification of Manner of Speaking Verbs in English

Manner-of-Speaking verb research has stemmed from the need to verify the elabora- tion of Manner in the verb root in the conceptual frame of speaking. Manner is expressed differently depending on the typology of the language, when considering a satellite-framed language like English, much research has been dedicated to the frame of Motion, and less to that of Speaking. This paper proposes to verify entrenchment of Manner components in Manner-of-Speaking verbs for the native English speaker. The verification process is conducted through a series of online questionnaires that ask respondents to identify Manner components for a series of Speaking verbs. The objec- tive is to analyze a group of randomized verbs to confirm the psychological reality of Manner for each verb entry, to compare the results to our previous hypothesis, and to corroborate the clustering of the distinguishing components according to respondent judgment and agreement.