Learning novel words for motion by speakers of structurally different languages
Language and CognitionSpeakers of different languages follow a three-way split in how they express motion events in speech—with a greater emphasis on manner in satellite-framed languages (English), path in verb-framed languages (Turkish), and comparable expression of manner ...
Irmak Su Tütüncü +4 more
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Comparing the paths of Hedgehog release in artificial and natural settings
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Hh morphogens require solubilization factors to overcome their tight association with the plasma membrane and signal to distant cells, but the precise functions of these factors are controversial. Here, we use published in vivo observations as the most relevant evidence to test their suggested functions and discuss contradictions and gaps between in ...
Janna Puschmann, Kay Grobe
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Encoding motion events in Mandarin Chinese : a cognitive functional study
, 2019 This book is a corpus-based description and discussion of how Modern Mandarin Chinese encodes motion events, with a focus on how the distribution of verbal motion morphemes is closely associated to the meanings they lexicalize.
Lin, Jingxia
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Manner in L2 German: evidence from motion event encoding
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas AplicadasThis study investigates the encoding of Manner in ablative and adlative boundary-crossing motion events in German, comparing the oral productions of native speakers of German and Spanish with those of Spanish-speaking learners at proficiency levels B1 ...
Amador García Tercero
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Constructions in learner language
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2023 This paper examines the degree to which learners’ L1 typology may affect the comprehension and production of L2 constructions. It has been suggested that English makes more use of constructional meaning than other languages (Goldberg, 2006: 120 ...
Montserrat Martínez Vázquez
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The Role of Language in Expressing Agentivity in Caused Motion Events: A Cross-Linguistic Investigation. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Park HI.
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How structural disorder and polyelectrolyte properties of prothymosin α enable its large interactome
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In this review, complexes of the fully disordered and highly negatively charged prothymosin α are collected, described, and discussed. Linked to its poly‐electrostatic character, prothymosin α engages a large interactome through multiple different binding modes ranging from fully disordered complexes to short linear motif (SLiM)‐driven interactions ...
Ketty C. Tamburrini +3 more
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Motion events in Seri: Applying Talmy\u27s typologies [PDF]
, 2010 Leonard Talmy\u27s typologies of motion hypothesize that in a language\u27s depiction of Motion events, the semantic components of the event will find characteristic expression in consistent morphosyntactic structures.
Sachs, April E.
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The Impact of Verb Speed on the Processing of Goal-Oriented Visual Scenes
Journal of CognitionResearch on mental simulation in language comprehension has yielded mixed findings, with some studies reporting evidence for sensorimotor simulation during language processing and others not. The current study is a conceptual cross-linguistic replication
Piia Taremaa +3 more
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Cross-linguistic transfer in Turkish-English bilinguals' descriptions of motion events. [PDF]
Lingua, 2021 Emerson SN, Limia VD, Özçalışkan Ş.
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