Naming motion events in Spanish and English
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12197142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paula Cifuentes-Férez (0000-0002-5658-5613, Universidad de Murcia, corresponding author), Dedre Gentner (0000-0002-5120-6688, Universidad de Murcia) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cognitive Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0936-5907 • E-ISSN: 1613-3641 |
| Publisher | De Gruyter Mouton (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/cog.2006.014 |
| OpenAlex | W2060529965 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 19 |
This research asked whether speakers are influenced by systematic semantic patterns in their language in forming new word meanings. We used the novel word mapping technique (Nagy and Gentner 1990) to test whether English and Spanish speakers would show effects of their differing semantic systems in inferring the meanings of novel motion verbs. We also tested for any language-specific effects in inferring novel nouns. Participants were given short passages containing either a novel noun or a novel motion verb, and were asked to infer the meaning of the novel word. The passages provided information about both the path and the manner of a novel motion event. Consistent with the semantic patterns in the respective languages, English speakers were more likely to infer a manner interpretation than a path interpretation and Spanish speakers showed the reverse pattern. Language-specific effects were not found for the meanings inferred for novel nouns
Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Motion (physics · Natural language processing · Noun · Semantic property · Semantics (computer science · Verb · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Psychology · Spatial Cognition and Navigation · Artificial Intelligence
Rethinking linguistic relativity
Shake, rattle, ‘n’ roll
Motion events in language and cognition
Verbalized events
Language and Thought Online
Sex, Syntax, and Semantics
Individuation, relativity, and early word learning
Evidence for Linguistic Relativity
Reference to Movement in Spoken and Signed Languages
Path Predicates in English and Spanish
Language typologies in our language use
Learning to think for speaking
Rethinking Linguistic Relativity
| Citations per year | 0.36 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2020 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |