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Peer reviewedPapafragou, Anna; Massey, Christine; Gleitman, Lila – Cognition, 2002
Two studies investigated whether language-specific patterns encoding manner and direction of motion in English and Greek affect adult and child speakers' performance on nonlinguistic motion tasks and linguistic descriptions of these motion events. Although the two linguistic groups differed in linguistic preferences, nonlinguistic task performance…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
