Linguistic Relativity

Boroditsky, Lera

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“…For example, cross-linguistic differences in the expression of categories or concepts can lead to corresponding differences in performance on 'perceptual' tasks such as visual search or same-different judgment tasks. These effects are found across a wide range of domains (e.g., Boroditsky, 2003). There are also multiple studies showing that learning novel categories can lead to changes in performance on these types of tasks (e.g., Drivonikou, Clifford, Franklin, & Davies, 2011;Goldstone, 1994;Notman, Sowden, & Özgen, 2005;Özgen & Davies, 2002).…”

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Neural correlates of acquired color category effects

Clifford

Franklin

Holmes

et al. 2012

Brain and Cognition

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a b s t r a c tCategory training can induce category effects, whereby color discrimination of stimuli spanning a newly learned category boundary is enhanced relative to equivalently spaced stimuli from within the newly learned category (e.g., categorical perception). However, the underlying mechanisms of these acquired category effects are not fully understood. In the current study, Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded during a visual oddball task where standard and deviant colored stimuli from the same or different novel categories were presented. ERPs were recorded for a test group who were trained on these novel categories, and for an untrained control group. Category effects were only found for the test group on the trained region of color space, and only occurred during post-perceptual stages of processing. These findings provide new evidence for the involvement of cognitive mechanisms in acquired category effects and suggest that category effects of this kind can exist independent of early perceptual processes.Crown

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Neural correlates of acquired color category effects

Clifford

Franklin

Holmes

et al. 2012

Brain and Cognition

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“…That is, people talk about time by using spatial expressions, which also suggest that locative relations are more basic and provide structural templates (Evans 2003, Boroditsky 2003, Lyons 1977. Sign languages offer clear cases to observe that spatial relations are encoded in signing space (e.g.…”

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Space, Time, and Iconicity in Turkish Sign Language (Tid)

Arık¹

2012

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Abstract. Much evidence points to the conclusion that temporal concepts are drawn primarily from the conceptualization of space. Sign languages provide a particularly suitable area for observing such a relationship since they employ a three-dimensional signing space as a major building block for articulation. This paper addresses spatial and temporal language in Turkish Sign Language (TID), which has a full-fledged grammar and a natural language used by the deaf community in Turkey. It investigates descriptions of static and dynamic spatial situations and expressions of time. Results showed mismatches between the axial information in the stimuli and the use of left-right and front-back axes in the signing space. Furthermore, results also showed that the temporal language did not always correlate with the deictic use of the front-back axis. Thus, these findings suggest that temporal language may only partially be derived from spatial language.

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“…In the experimental studies reported here, we tested two competing theoretical hypotheses about the relation between evidentiality and source monitoring. According to one hypothesis, evidentiality markers could enhance memory for sources in Turkish compared to English speakers by allowing people to recall or reconstruct source information based on the systematic differentiation of those sources at the linguistic level (Boroditsky, 2003;Imai & Gentner, 1997;Levinson, 2003;Lucy, 1992;Whorf, 1956). According to another hypothesis, evidential language might not produce deep attention-driven reorganization of source-monitoring processes (Gleitman & Papafragou, 2005Landau et al, 2010;Papafragou et al, 2002).…”

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“…2 Several commentators have proposed that language has a deep and lasting effect on cognitive processes (Boroditsky, 2003;Imai & Gentner, 1997;Levinson, 2003;Lucy, 1992;see Whorf, 1956 for an early statement of this position). On this view, habitual differences in linguistic framing of events across language communities may lead to stable differences in how members of these communities remember and reason about events even when they are not explicitly using language (i.e., speaking or comprehending speech).…”

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a b s t r a c tWhen monitoring the origins of their memories, people tend to mistakenly attribute memories generated from internal processes (e.g., imagination, visualization) to perception. Here, we ask whether speaking a language that obligatorily encodes the source of information might help prevent such errors. We compare speakers of English to speakers of Turkish, a language that obligatorily encodes information source (direct/perceptual vs. indirect/hearsay or inference) for past events. In our experiments, participants reported having seen events that they had only inferred from post-event visual evidence. In general, error rates were higher when visual evidence that gave rise to inferences was relatively close to direct visual evidence. Furthermore, errors persisted even when participants were asked to report the specific sources of their memories. Crucially, these error patterns were equivalent across language groups, suggesting that speaking a language that obligatorily encodes source of information does not increase sensitivity to the distinction between perception and inference in event memory.

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Linguistic Relativity

Abstract: Languages differ dramatically from one another in terms of how they describe the world. Does having different ways of describing the world lead speakers of different languages also to have different ways of thinking about the world?

Cited by 58 publications

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Neural correlates of acquired color category effects

Neural correlates of acquired color category effects

Space, Time, and Iconicity in Turkish Sign Language (Tid)

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