5 Verbalizations of motion events

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. 0 Introduction 1
5. Part I: State of the art
6. 1 Language and cognition 9
7. 2 Linguistic determinism and “thinking for speaking” 30
8. 3 The relation between language and cognition in different language acquisition theories 46
9. 4 Selected aspects of spatial cognition in children 73
10. 5 Verbalizations of motion events 84
11. 6 General assumptions 132
12. Part II: Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German
13. 7 Methodology 137
14. 8 Specific hypotheses 152
15. 9 Results: Voluntary Motion 156
16. 10 Results: Caused Motion 236
17. Part III: Discussion
18. 11 Discussion of the results and further research directions 317
19. Appendix
20. A Methodology 335
21. B Results: Voluntary motion 344
22. C Results: Caused motion 355
23. References 359
24. Subject index 383
25. Author index 385