Introduction

Matched or moved? Asymmetry in high- and low-level visual processing of motion events

“…The findings of both experiments are of immediate relevance to Talmy’s typology of event integration, distinguishing S-languages and V-languages depending on which sentence constituents encode semantic notions such as manner and path (2000:117), and also to the expanded typology by Slobin (2004) adding E-languages such as Mandarin, Jaminjung (Schultze-Berndt, 2000) and Thai (Zlatev & Peerapat, 2004) to the taxonomy. The present study brings new evidence that the inequivalence of encoding manner in English and Mandarin predictably influences how top-down information affects not only high-level semantic but also low-level perceptual processing of motion, with speaker variation groupable by the type of manner encoding in their native language.…”

“…Returning to the satellite-framed (S-language) versus verb-framed (V-language) distinction advocated by Talmy (1985), Slobin (2004) proposed an additional category of equipollently framed E-languages (e.g., Mandarin Chinese) into the taxonomy. The major syntactic difference between English and Mandarin Chinese regarding motion events is the relative linguistic weight of manner and path components.…”

Designing a relational database to alleviate the impacts of foreign words on the Turkish Language

“…The great linguist Edward Sapir characterized the Turkish language as exhibiting a sober logic (Sapir, 1921). Slobin and Zimmer (1986) emhpasize the sober logic of the Turkish language as cyrstalline strings of agglutinated morphemes, regular and exceptionless in their arrangements. Today, due to the impacts of the foreign words, the Turkish language gives an illusion to foreigners that Turkish has no grammar as it is abound in exceptions and irregular words (Tekten, 2009).…”