Motion events in language and cognition
Motion events in language and cognition
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DOI：
10.1016/s0010-0277(01)00166-4
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发表时间：
2002-02-01
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影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Fitch, WT
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作者：
Gennari, SP;Sloman, SA;Fitch, WT
本研究探讨英语和西班牙语中运动事件的不同词汇化模式是否能预测这两种语言的使用者在非语言任务中的表现。使用36个运动事件，我们比较了英语和西班牙语的语言描述，他们的表现在两个非语言任务：识别记忆和相似性判断。我们通过在识别和相似性测试之前改变编码的性质来研究语言处理对非语言性能的影响。参与者在口头或非口头描述的同时对事件进行编码。无论是语言编码还是非语言编码，在再认记忆任务中以及非语言编码后的相似性任务中均未发现语言的影响。我们确实发现了语言编码后的相似性任务中的语言效应，这种效应符合语言特定的模式。语言描述将注意力集中在事件的某些方面，后来用于做出非语言判断。这表明，语言和非语言的表现是分离的，但语言特定的功能提供了在实验背景下可能调解扬声器的性能在特定的任务。(C)2002 Elsevier Science B.V.保留所有权利。
This study investigated whether different lexicalization patterns of motion events in English and Spanish predict how speakers of these languages perform in non-linguistic tasks. Using 36 motion events, we compared English and Spanish speakers' linguistic descriptions to their performance on two non-linguistic tasks: recognition memory and similarity judgments. We investigated the effect of language processing on non-linguistic performance by varying the nature of the encoding before testing for recognition and similarity. Participants encoded the events while describing them verbally or not. No effect of language was obtained in the recognition memory task after either linguistic or non-linguistic encoding and in the similarity task after non-linguistic encoding. We did find a linguistic effect in the similarity task after verbal encoding, an effect that conformed to language-specific patterns. Linguistic descriptions directed attention to certain aspects of the events later used to make a non-linguistic judgment. This suggests that linguistic and non-linguistic performance are dissociable, but language-specific regularities made available in the experimental context may mediate the speaker's performance in specific tasks. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.