Montero-Melis, Guillermo, Eisenbeiss, Sonja, Narasimhan, Bhuvana, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide, Kita, Sotaro, Kopecka, Anetta, Lüpke, Friederike, Nikitina, Tatiana, Tragel, Ilona, Jaeger, T. Florian and Bohnemeyer, Juergen (2017) Satellite- vs. verb-framing underpredicts nonverbal motion categorization : insights from a large language sample and simulations. Cognitive Semantics, 3 (1). pp. 36-61. doi:10.1163/23526416-00301002 ISSN 2352-6408.
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Abstract
Is motion cognition influenced by the large-scale typological patterns proposed in Talmy’s (2000) two-way distinction between verb-framed (V) and satellite‑framed (S) languages? Previous studies investigating this question have been limited to comparing two or three languages at a time and have come to conflicting results. We present the largest cross-linguistic study on this question to date, drawing on data from nineteen genealogically diverse languages, all investigated in the same behavioral paradigm and using the same stimuli. After controlling for the different dependencies in the data by means of multilevel regression models, we find no evidence that S- vs. V-framing affects nonverbal categorization of motion events. At the same time, statistical simulations suggest that our study and previous work within the same behavioral paradigm suffer from insufficient statistical power. We discuss these findings in the light of the great variability between participants, which suggests flexibility in motion representation. Furthermore, we discuss the importance of accounting for language variability, something which can only be achieved with large cross-linguistic samples
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Comparative linguistics, Talmy, Leonard -- Influence |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognitive Semantics |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISSN: | 2352-6408 |
| Official Date: | January 2017 |
| Dates: | Date Event January 2017 Published 1 December 2016 Accepted |
| Volume: | 3 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | pp. 36-61 |
| DOI: | 10.1163/23526416-00301002 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 1 December 2016 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 February 2019 |
| Funder: | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften [Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science], Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, University of Zaragoza, National Science Foundation (U.S.) (NSF) |
| Grant number: | MovEsII: FFI2013-45553-C3-1-P (University of Zaragoza), CAREER Award IIS-1150 028 (NSF) |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/84268/ |
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