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Brown, Amanda – Modern Language Journal, 2015
This article investigates bilingual versus monolingual construal of manner of motion in speech and gesture across three languages--Mandarin, Japanese, and English--argued to be typologically distinct in speech and co-speech gesture (Brown & Chen, 2013; McNeill, 2001; Slobin, 2004b; Talmy, 1991). Narrative descriptions of motion were elicited…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language
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Brown, Amanda; Gullberg, Marianne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Typological differences in expressions of motion are argued to have consequences for event conceptualization. In SLA, studies generally find transfer of L1 expressions and accompanying event construals, suggesting resistance to the restructuring of event conceptualization. The current study tackles such restructuring in SLA within the context of…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Classification, Japanese, Native Speakers