How Mandarin–English bilinguals interpret qián/forward: impact of language proficiencies on retrieval of temporal concepts

Mandarin qián and English forward are semantically equivalent in the domain of Space, but could be semantically opposite in the domain of Time. In other words, equivalent spatial lexical items could convey opposite temporal concepts. What temporal concepts conveyed by qián and forward would be retri...

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Published in:Frontiers in Psychology
Main Authors: Tengji Yang, Ying Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-05-01
Subjects:
metaphor
bilingual
language proficiency
temporal concepts
retrieval
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1370605/full

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