How children attend to events before speaking: crosslinguistic evidence from the motion domain

How do children talk about the dynamic world around them? In this eyetracking study, we demonstrate language-specific patterns in the way 3- and 4-year-old speakers of English and Greek inspect motion events prior to speaking and describe such events in their native language. Across age and language...

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Published in:	Glossa
Main Authors:	Ann Bunger, Anna Papafragou, Dimitrios Skordos, John C. Trueswell
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2021-03-01
Subjects:	motion events crosslinguistic differences language production event cognition acquisition
Online Access:	https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5408/