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Motion events in language and cognition [PDF]
Cognition, 2002 This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using 36 motion events, we compared English and Spanish speakers' linguistic descriptions to their performance on two non-linguistic tasks: recognition memory and similarity ...
Gennari, S.P. +3 more
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Motion events in English textbooks: a cross-linguistic analysis of Path
Frontiers in Education, 2023 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
Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022 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]
Trames, 2015 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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Discours, 2020 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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Frontiers in Communication, 2022 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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Event retrieval using motion barcodes [PDF]
2015 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015 We introduce a simple and effective method for retrieval of videos showing a specific event, even when the videos of that event were captured from significantly different viewpoints. Appearance-based methods fail in such cases, as appearances change with large changes of viewpoints.
Gil Ben-Artzi +2 more
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How children attend to events before speaking: crosslinguistic evidence from the motion domain
Glossa, 2021 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
Linguistique et Langues Africaines, 2017 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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The multi-modal representation of motion events in Awetí discourse
CogniTextes, 2015 Recent research focusing on the insights gestures may offer into the mental conceptualization of motion events suggests that a number of factors may influence the way motion events are gestured in different languages.
Sabine Reiter
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