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Emanuel Bylund; Steven Samuel; Panos Athanasopoulos – Language Learning, 2024
Research has shown that speakers of different languages may differ in their cognitive and perceptual processing of reality. A common denominator of this line of investigation has been its reliance on the sensory domain of vision. The aim of our study was to extend the scope to a new sense-taste. Using as a starting point crosslinguistic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Classification, Language Processing
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Wu, Shu-Ling – Language Learning, 2011
The present study adopted a cognitive linguistic framework--Talmy's (1985, 1991, 2000) typological classification of motion events--to investigate how second-language (L2) Chinese learners come to express motion events in a targetlike manner. Fifty-five U.S. university students and 20 native speakers of Chinese participated in the study. A…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Morphemes, Motion, Native Speakers