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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events [PDF]
The study examined the implications of Talmy motion event typology and Slobin’s thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the context of Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingualism. Uyghur and Chinese represent genetically distant languages (Turkic vs.
Alimujiang Tusun
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Consistency in Motion Event Encoding Across Languages [PDF]
Syntactic templates serve as schemas, allowing speakers to describe complex events in a systematic fashion. Motion events have long served as a prime example of how different languages favor different syntactic frames, in turn biasing their speakers ...
Guillermo Montero-Melis +2 more
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This paper investigates the quantitative distribution (type and token frequencies, and type-per-token ratio [TTR]) of motion verbs found in English and Indonesian versions of the novel Twilight (Meyer, 2005; Sari, 2008).
Gede Primahadi Wijaya Rajeg +1 more
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Motion events in English textbooks: a cross-linguistic analysis of Path
Understanding how motion events are encoded and retrieved across languages has significant implications for language teaching, learning, and cognitive linguistics.
Hassan Banaruee +2 more
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The Potential of Immersive Virtual Reality for the Study of Event Perception
In everyday life, we actively engage in different activities from a first-person perspective. However, experimental psychological research in the field of event perception is often limited to relatively passive, third-person computer-based paradigms.
Julia Misersky +4 more
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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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This paper presents a cross-sectional study of the expression of motion events in oral narrative discourse produced by second language (L2) learners of Italian and French, whose first language (L1) is either typologically close (Italian or French) or ...
Simona Anastasio, Sandra Benazzo
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Inspired by sociocultural psychology principles applied to understanding language learning and conceptual development, this participatory action research illustrates a pedagogical intervention to teach motion events as conceptual categories in the Second
Francisca Aguiló-Mora +1 more
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How children attend to events before speaking: crosslinguistic evidence from the motion domain
How do children talk about the dynamic world around them? In this eyetracking study, we demonstrate language-specific patterns in the way 3- and 4-year-old speakers of English and Greek inspect motion events prior to speaking and describe such events in ...
Ann Bunger +3 more
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The morpho-syntactic coding of motion events in Igbò
The phenomenon of motion events is universal in human cognition and language. These events are coded in the verbal structure of human language. This work builds on the past study of Igbo motion verbs and seeks to investigate the interaction between ...
Maduabuchi Sennen Agbo
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