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Find Your Manners: How Do Infants Detect the Invariant Manner of Motion in Dynamic Events? [PDF]
Abstract To learn motion verbs, infants must be sensitive to the specific event features lexicalized in their language. One event feature important for the acquisition of English motion verbs is the manner of motion. This article examines when and how infants detect manners of motion across variations in the figure’s path.
TILBE Göksun
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Fronto-temporal regions encode the manner of motion in spatial language [PDF]
When describing spatial events, dynamic actions can be decomposed into the path of motion (where the object moves), and the manner of motion (how the object moves). These components may be instantiated in two processing streams in the human brain, wherein dorsal parietal areas process path-related information, while ventral temporal regions process ...
Eileen Cardillo +2 more
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The Classification of Manner Verbs of Motion in Persian [In English] [PDF]
Taking the theory of motion event introduced by Talmy (2000a&b) into account as well as adopting the classification of motion verbs of English proposed by Ibaretxe-Antunano (2006), approved by Ozcaliskan (2004) and Slobin (2000), all of which cited in ...
Marziyeh Badiee, Zolfa Imani
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EXPRESSING MANNER, LOCATION, AND ORIENTATION IN MANNER-ONLY MOTION EVENTS IN TURKISH SIGN LANGUAGE; pp. 205–220 [PDF]
The path and manner of objects in motion events have been studied in many languages. Previous research has focused on whether both path and manner are expressed in the main verb and whether manner can be omitted due to saliency, narrative style, or ...
Engin Arik
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Does MANNER count or not? Manner-of-motion verbs revisited
Pinker (1989) observes that particular manners of so-called manner-of-motion verbs like roll' or bounce' play no role in the mapping between syntax and semantics. This paper argues that while Pinker's claim seems to be valid for the sentences that he cites, it is rash to conclude that the particulars of the manner never count in form-meaning ...
Seizi Iwata
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Examination of Manner of Motion Sound Symbolism for English Nonce Verbs
This paper offers cross-experimental verification of a previous study that found that English speakers considered velars, palatals, glides, and high vowels to be sound-symbolic of light and jerky movements.
David Ellingson Eddington +1 more
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NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE MEDIATED BY MANNER OF MOTION VERBS
There is typological variation in the way languages encode manner as an element of a motion event. Languages like English view it as relevant, and the lexicalization of the variety of ways to move results in a rich class of motion verbs, contrary to ...
Olesea BODEAN-VOZIAN
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AbstractRecent decades have witnessed an increasing interest in motion events resulting in thorough knowledge about expressions of manner. However, the individual dimensions of manner of motion have been investigated less extensively. In this study, we focus on one particular dimension of manner:speed.
Taremaa, Piia, Kopecka, Anetta
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This study aims at exploring how speakers of typologically different languages, Turkish “verb-framed” and English “satellite-framed” express motion events in translations.
Cemre İşler
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Trailing Harry Potter into Romanian
Characteristic of English and other Germanic languages, Goal of Motion constructions represent a challenge for any translator rendering them into a Romance language.
Ruxandra Drăgan
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