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  Conceptual event units of putting and taking in two unrelated languages

Defina, R., & Majid, A. (2012). Conceptual event units of putting and taking in two unrelated languages. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012) (pp. 1470-1475). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

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Defina, Rebecca1, 2, 3, Author           
Majid, Asifa1, 3, 4, Author           
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1Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_792548              
2International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_1119545              
3Categories across Language and Cognition, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55211              
4Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, External Organizations, Nijmegen, NL, ou_55236              

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Free keywords: Conceptual event units; event segmentation; serial verb constructions; linguistic relativity
 Abstract: People automatically chunk ongoing dynamic events into discrete units. This paper investigates whether linguistic structure is a factor in this process. We test the claim that describing an event with a serial verb construction will influence a speaker’s conceptual event structure. The grammar of Avatime (a Kwa language spoken in Ghana)requires its speakers to describe some, but not all, placement events using a serial verb construction which also encodes the preceding taking event. We tested Avatime and English speakers’ recognition memory for putting and taking events. Avatime speakers were more likely to falsely recognize putting and taking events from episodes associated with takeput serial verb constructions than from episodes associated with other constructions. English speakers showed no difference in false recognitions between episode types. This demonstrates that memory for episodes is related to the type of language used; and, moreover, across languages different conceptual representations are formed for the same physical episode, paralleling habitual linguistic practices

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2012-02-012012-04-3020122012
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: 6
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Title: the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)
Place of Event: Sapporo, Japan
Start-/End Date: 2012-08-01 - 2012-08-04

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Title: Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012)
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Cooper, R.P., Editor
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Publ. Info: Austin, TX : Cognitive Science Society
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