Encoding Motion Events

Woerfel, Till

doi:10.1515/9781501507977

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“…This was due to their more frequent use of semantically general causative verbs in both languages (i.e., al 'to take' in Uyghur, na2 'to hold/take' in Chinese). This finding echoes previous studies documenting that bilinguals have a preference for semantically general motion verbs that can be readily applied to a wide range of contexts (e.g., Hijazo-Gascón, 2021;Tusun, 2022a;Woerfel, 2018), which may indicate a general bilingual simplification strategy to reduce processing costs (cf. Filipović, 2019;Silva-Corvalán, 2014).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

“…In fact, experimental studies have repeatedly found that Chinese speakers use the verbframed ZHE construction as frequently as the equipollently-framed BA construction (cf. Ji et al, 2011;Ji & Hohenstein, 2014, 2018. On these grounds, we consider Chinese an E-language in the sense that a) the V1 and V2 in an RVC are verbs, and that b) equipollent-framing and verb-framing constructions are equally characteristic means of encoding CM in Chinese.…”

Section: Motion Expressions In Uyghur and Chinesementioning

confidence: 99%

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Tusun

2023

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Talmy’s motion event typology has served as a fruitful framework for exploring bilingual cognition and language use. The present study extends this line of research to the bilingualism situation of an underrepresented Turkic language, i.e., Modern Uyghur, and Mandarin Chinese, and it does so by focusing on a relatively understudied type of motion, i.e., caused motion. The two languages are genetically and typologically distinct, and yet they share verb-framing as an important lexicalization pattern in encoding motion. This study, therefore, investigated whether and to what extent this structural overlap contributes to crosslinguistic influence in Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion. Thirty Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals’ verbalizations were analyzed with respect to the number of semantic components expressed and the way they were syntactically packaged. Results were compared with relevant monolingual data, which showed that Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals displayed a strong L1 to L2 influence in syntactic packaging by overusing the verb-framed strategy in Mandarin Chinese. However, further comparisons with previous research on Uyghur–Chinese child and adult bilinguals’ motion construal revealed that, while structural overlap is a key factor motivating crosslinguistic influence, a coherent explanation of this phenomenon must consider more general principles of bilingual language processing and use.

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Section: Motion Expressions In Uyghur and Chinesementioning

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Tusun

2023

Lang. cogn.

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“…Furthermore, children from age 4 provided additional Path information in the OTH locus (via dative/ablative case markers), which reflects their early sensitivity to yet another dimension of encoding motion in morphologically rich verb-final V-languages (cf. Ibarretxe-Antuñano, 2009) and echoes earlier findings on Turkish monolingual (Özçalışkan, 2009) and bilingual children (Woerfel, 2018).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…On the measure of semantic density, while there was a slight increase of SD2 descriptions (i.e., combining Path and Manner) over time, children did not reach the adult level even at age 10. Again, this has been previously observed for Turkish (e.g., Özçalışkan & Slobin, 2000) and French (e.g., Harr, 2012;Harr & Hickmann, 2013;Hendriks et al, 2022) monolingual children, as well as Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilingual children (Woerfel, 2018). This could be explained on typological grounds.…”

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Tusun

2023

Bilingualism

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This study explores the implications of Talmy's (2000) motion event typology and its subsequent articulations in relation to Slobin's (1996, 2006) thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the early successive bilingual acquisition of Uyghur (verb-framed) and Mandarin Chinese (equipollently-framed). Specifically, it examines how 4-, 6-, 8- and 10-year-old bilingual children acquire motion expressions in their L1 and L2 respectively, and how cross-linguistic influence shapes their L2 acquisition process. Results show that, in their L1 Uyghur, bilinguals follow general developmental trajectories observed for children acquiring verb-framed languages. While sensitive to the equipollent Chinese system from early on, due to L1 and other factors, bilinguals fully converge on the Chinese pattern only at age 10, a feat in place in monolinguals from age 3. Our findings highlight that bilingual children do eventually come to develop language-specific thinking-for-speaking patterns in their L2, but they traverse a distinct developmental path.

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“…Centrifuge separation may prove to be an attractive alternative if accurate pH control can be provided. Separation of raw soapstock by evaporation of the water phase has also been proposed, which is said to perform as well as commercial feed fats (29). Other processes are under development and improvements to the separation technology will be welcomed by the integrated processor.…”

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A Primer on Oils Processing Technology

Anderson

Hossain

Shahidi

2020

Bailey's Industrial Oil and Fat Products

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In the last couple of decades, the emphasis has been placed from stand‐alone operations toward the integrated manufacturing facility, producing a more complete range of value‐added products from the raw seed to the dinner table. During this transition, operations have become more dependent on each other, as the individual functions involved must now consider the impact of their actions on the total process. At the same time, the scope of knowledge each operation must have of other functions has expanded, and it is important that at least a basic understanding of the “big overall picture” be available to the decision‐maker. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the typical processes and interrelations associated with a total integrated facility.

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Encoding Motion Events

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

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