Motion Event Similarity Judgments in One or Two Languages: An Exploration of Monolingual Speakers of English and Chinese vs. L2 Learners of English

Languages differ systematically in how to encode a motion event. English characteristically expresses manner in verb root and path in verb particle; in Chinese, varied aspects of motion, such as manner, path and cause, can be simultaneously encoded in a verb compound. This study investigates whether...

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Main Author: Yinglin Ji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00909/full