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Günther, Fritz; Dudschig, Carolin; Kaup, Barbara – Cognitive Science, 2018
Theories of embodied cognition assume that concepts are grounded in non-linguistic, sensorimotor experience. In support of this assumption, previous studies have shown that upwards response movements are faster than downwards movements after participants have been presented with words whose referents are typically located in the upper vertical…
Descriptors: Experiments, Linguistic Input, Semantics, Sentences
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Klassert, Annegret; Gagarina, Natalia; Kauschke, Christina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
The present study investigates the influence of word category on naming performance in two populations: bilingual and monolingual children. The question is whether and, if so, to what extent monolingual and bilingual children differ with respect to noun and verb naming and whether a noun bias exists in the lexical abilities of bilingual children.…
Descriptors: Russian, German, Monolingualism, Bilingualism