Going places in Dutch and mandarin Chinese: conceptualising the path of motion cross-linguistically

Liao, Yiyun; Flecken, Monique; Dijkstra, Katinka; Zwaan, Rolf A.

doi:10.1080/23273798.2019.1676455

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“…However, spatiotemporal continuity of the central object was necessary to induce false recognition of the moment of release with or without additional causal implication. Whereas some work, particularly in language development, has argued that the goal or end point of a movement plays a particularly critical role in encoding events in memory (Lakusta & Landau, 2005), our results indicate that information about object trajectory itself is critical to forming a coherent event representation (see also Liao, Flecken, Dijkstra, and Zwaan, 2020).…”

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Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations

Kominsky

Baker²,

Keil

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Mem Cogn

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Imagine you see a video of someone pulling back their leg to kick a soccer ball, and then a soccer ball soaring toward a goal. You would likely infer that these scenes are two parts of the same event, and this inference would likely cause you to remember having seen the moment the person kicked the soccer ball, even if that information was never actually presented (Strickland & Keil, 2011, Cognition, 121[3], 409-415). What cues trigger people to "fill in" causal events from incomplete information? Is it due to the experience they have had with soccer balls being kicked toward goals? Is it the visual similarity of the object in both halves of the video? Or is it the mere spatiotemporal continuity of the event? In three experiments, we tested these different potential mechanisms underlying the "filling-in" effect. Experiment 1 showed that filling in occurs equally in familiar and unfamiliar contexts, indicating that familiarity with specific event schemas is unnecessary to trigger false memory. Experiment 2 showed that the visible continuation of a launched object's trajectory is all that is required to trigger filling in, regardless of other occurrences in the second half of the scene. Finally, Experiment 3 found that, using naturalistic videos, this filling-in effect is more heavily affected if the object's trajectory is discontinuous in space/time compared with if the object undergoes a noticeable transformation. Together, these findings indicate that the spontaneous formation of causal event representations is driven by object representation systems that prioritize spatiotemporal information over other object features.

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Section: Ball Invisiblecontrasting

confidence: 61%

Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations

Kominsky

Baker²,

Keil

et al. 2020

Mem Cogn

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“…It has progressive constructions, such as the aan-het construction and postural verb constructions (e.g., zitten te + infinitive), but they are less frequently used and hence more marked than the simple forms in Dutch (Flecken, 2011). They are often constrained by more contexts and more situation types than the simple forms (see event description studies in Flecken, 2011;Liao, Flecken, Dijkstra, & Zwaan, 2020;von Stutterheim, Carroll, & Klein, 2009). For instance, von Stutterheim et al (2009) found that, when describing a motion event in which the agent moves in relation to a reference object, Dutch speakers exclusively used the simple present tense (e.g., Hij loopt naar/richting het station) instead of a progressive construction (e.g., Hij is naar/richting het station aan het lopen).…”

Section: 1 T W O D U T C H D I R E C T I O N a L P R E P O S I T mentioning

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Directional prepositions and event endpoint conceptualization: a study ofnaarandrichtingin Dutch

2020

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Two Dutch directional prepositions (i.e., naar and richting) provide a useful paradigm to study endpoint conceptualization. Experiment 1 adopted a sentence comprehension task and confirmed the linguistic proposal that, when naar was used in motion event descriptions, participants were more certain that the reference object was the goal of the agent than when richting was used. Experiment 2 and Experiment 3 used this linguistic pair to test the effect of two factors (i.e., the actor’s goal and the interlocutor’s status) on endpoint conceptualization via language production tasks. We found significant effects of both factors. First, participants chose naar more often when there was an inference in the referential situation that the reference object was the actor’s goal than when there was no such inference. Second, participants chose richting more often when they were told to describe the referential scenario to a police officer than to a friend. Participants were more cautious with their statements and were less willing to commit themselves to stating the goal of the agent when talking to a police officer than to a friend. The results are discussed in relation to relevant linguistic theories and event theories.

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“…2004; Gerwien & von Stutterheim 2018; Liao et al. 2019; von Stutterheim & Nüse 2003). However, causation in event segmentation appears to be under‐examined (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Previously published literature concerning event segmentation across languages concentrated on self-initiated events (e.g. Bohnemeyer et al 2007;Carroll et al 2004;Gerwien & von Stutterheim 2018;Liao et al 2019;von Stutterheim & N€ use 2003). However, causation in event segmentation appears to be under-examined (e.g.…”

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Event Segmentation and Causation: The Case of Mandarin Causal‐Chain Motion*

Deng

2023

Studia Linguistica

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This study investigates how Mandarin speakers segment causal-chain motion events in a verbalization task. The results demonstrate that Mandarin shows attentional bias for the causal source and goal in causal-chain segmentation, which may be universal across languages. Furthermore, there is a correlation between directness of causation and the complexity of linguistic representations, with direct conceptualization leading to a preference for simpler constructions (e.g. causative verb construction, resultative verb construction), and indirect causation for more complex representations (e.g. causative periphrases and multi-macro-event constructions). The most salient factor for directness of causation in causal-chain segmentation is spatio-temporal contiguity. The macro-event property (MEP) is used to test the tightness of Mandarin causative constructions from a typological perspective. It is concluded that Mandarin demonstrates greater similarity with Ewe and Lao, but differs from Japanese and Yukatek regarding grammatical integration and event integration in causal-chain segmentation.*We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, to Elizabeth Traugott for giving help with final editing, and to the editor-in-chief Arthur Holmer and the editing team for their help and feedback. All remaining errors are ours.

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Going places in Dutch and mandarin Chinese: conceptualising the path of motion cross-linguistically

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations

Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations

Directional prepositions and event endpoint conceptualization: a study ofnaarandrichtingin Dutch

Event Segmentation and Causation: The Case of Mandarin Causal‐Chain Motion*

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