Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition

Name: Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition
Author: Ünal, Ercenur, Richards, C., Trueswell, J. C., Papafragou, A.

İsim	Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition
Yazar	Ünal, Ercenur, Richards, C., Trueswell, J. C., Papafragou, A.
Basım Tarihi:	2021-11
Basım Yeri	- Wiley
Konu	Causative events, Change blindness, Cross-linguistic differences, Event cognition, Event perception, Thematic roles
Tür	Süreli Yayın
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Kütüphane:	Özyeğin Üniversitesi
Demirbaş Numarası	1363-755X
Kayıt Numarası	ce774b3d-41f8-4d19-8fa9-3fdfa0a951a4
Lokasyon	Psychology
Tarih	2021-11
Notlar	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Örnek Metin	Although it is widely assumed that the linguistic description of events is based on a structured representation of event components at the perceptual/conceptual level, little empirical work has tested this assumption directly. Here, we test the connection between language and perception/cognition cross-linguistically, focusing on the relative salience of causative event components in language and cognition. We draw on evidence from preschoolers speaking English or Turkish. In a picture description task, Turkish-speaking 3-5-year-olds mentioned Agents less than their English-speaking peers (Turkish allows subject drop); furthermore, both language groups mentioned Patients more frequently than Goals, and Instruments less frequently than either Patients or Goals. In a change blindness task, both language groups were equally accurate at detecting changes to Agents (despite surface differences in Agent mentions). The remaining components also behaved similarly: both language groups were less accurate in detecting changes to Instruments than either Patients or Goals (even though Turkish-speaking preschoolers were less accurate overall than their English-speaking peers). To our knowledge, this is the first study offering evidence for a strong—even though not strict—homology between linguistic and conceptual event roles in young learners cross-linguistically.
DOI	10.1111/desc.13116
Cilt	24

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Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross-linguistic investigation of early language and cognition

Yazar Ünal, Ercenur, Richards, C., Trueswell, J. C., Papafragou, A.

Basım Tarihi 2021-11

Basım Yeri - Wiley

Konu Causative events, Change blindness, Cross-linguistic differences, Event cognition, Event perception, Thematic roles

Tür Süreli Yayın

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Kütüphane Özyeğin Üniversitesi

Demirbaş Numarası 1363-755X

Kayıt Numarası ce774b3d-41f8-4d19-8fa9-3fdfa0a951a4

Lokasyon Psychology

Tarih 2021-11

Notlar National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Örnek Metin Although it is widely assumed that the linguistic description of events is based on a structured representation of event components at the perceptual/conceptual level, little empirical work has tested this assumption directly. Here, we test the connection between language and perception/cognition cross-linguistically, focusing on the relative salience of causative event components in language and cognition. We draw on evidence from preschoolers speaking English or Turkish. In a picture description task, Turkish-speaking 3-5-year-olds mentioned Agents less than their English-speaking peers (Turkish allows subject drop); furthermore, both language groups mentioned Patients more frequently than Goals, and Instruments less frequently than either Patients or Goals. In a change blindness task, both language groups were equally accurate at detecting changes to Agents (despite surface differences in Agent mentions). The remaining components also behaved similarly: both language groups were less accurate in detecting changes to Instruments than either Patients or Goals (even though Turkish-speaking preschoolers were less accurate overall than their English-speaking peers). To our knowledge, this is the first study offering evidence for a strong—even though not strict—homology between linguistic and conceptual event roles in young learners cross-linguistically.

DOI 10.1111/desc.13116

Cilt 24