Mapping Events onto Language

将事件映射到语言

• 批准号: 0641105
• 负责人: Anna Papafragou
• 金额: $ 37.5万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-05-01 至 2012-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0641105&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Mapping; Events; onto; Language

People talk about events in their visual worlds in a way that seems both natural and effortless. However, these events must be represented in spoken language as well as the language of thought, so to speak, and the processes by which people translate between these two languages remain a matter of debate despite decades of linguistic and cognitive research. This research question is complicated by the fact that languages differ considerably in the way they encode even the simplest and most familiar events. Such cross-linguistic variations are common throughout the world's languages, and they raise deep questions about the relationship between language and thought. In the context of event cognition, the question is whether there are universal components of event cognition, and whether the linguistic encoding of event information has an effect on the operation of those components.With support from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Papafragou and Dr. Trueswell will conduct a series of experimental studies with adults speaking different languages to study how dynamically unfolding events are mapped onto linguistic representations, and whether these representations affect the conceptual organization of the visual world. Their research offers an innovative and multi-pronged approach to one of the most fundamental topics in the study of the mind, namely how human perception and cognition make contact with the language faculty. Because of its thoroughly interdisciplinary nature, this project provides unique training for graduate and undergraduate students in the cognitive sciences, including eye-tracking, cross-linguistic, and international work.

人们以一种看起来既自然又轻松的方式谈论他们视觉世界中的事件。然而，这些事件必须用口语和思想语言来表示，可以说，尽管进行了数十年的语言和认知研究，人们在这两种语言之间进行翻译的过程仍然是一个争论的问题。 由于语言在编码最简单和最熟悉的事件的方式上存在很大差异，这一事实使这个研究问题变得复杂。这种跨语言的变异在世界各地的语言中都很常见，它们引发了关于语言与思想之间关系的深刻问题。 在事件认知的背景下，问题是事件认知是否存在普遍成分，以及事件信息的语言编码是否会影响这些成分的运作。在美国国家科学基金会的支持下，Papafragou博士和Trueswell博士将对讲不同语言的成年人进行一系列实验研究，以研究动态展开的事件如何映射到语言表征上，以及这些表征是否影响视觉世界的概念组织。他们的研究为心灵研究中最基本的主题之一提供了一种创新和多管齐下的方法，即人类感知和认知如何与语言能力相联系。由于其彻底的跨学科性质，该项目为认知科学领域的研究生和本科生提供独特的培训，包括眼球追踪、跨语言和国际工作。