Directional prepositions and event endpoint conceptualization:A study of naar and richting in Dutch
Two Dutch directional prepositions (i.e., naar and richting) provide a useful paradigm to study endpoint conceptualization. Experiment 1 adopted a sentence comprehension task and confirmed the linguistic proposal that, when naar was used in motion event descriptions, participants were more certain that the reference object was the goal of the agent than when richting was used. Experiment 2 and Experiment 3 used this linguistic pair to test the effect of two factors (i.e., the actor's goal and the interlocutor's status) on endpoint conceptualization via language production tasks. We found signi... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2020 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Liao , Y , Dijkstra , K & Zwaan , R A 2020 , ' Directional prepositions and event endpoint conceptualization : A study of naar and richting in Dutch ' , Language and Cognition , vol. 13 , no. 2 , pp. 161-190 . https://doi.org/10.1017/langcog.2020.31 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27460137 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://pure.eur.nl/en/publications/abafd20f-1b89-4e0c-b2ad-de810e71ad7e |