Abstract
This article brings a new perspective to the currently burgeoning interest in the power of language to influence how speakers from different linguistic backgrounds process motion events. While many studies have targeted high-level decision-based processes, such as Manner-based versus Path-based categorisation or motion event similarity judgments from memory, far less is known about the role of various language systems on low-level automatic processing. The goal of this article is to present an experimental method called breaking continuous flash suppression (b-CFS), critically assess its potential to capture language-induced biases when processing motion through a small-scale feasibility study with English native speakers versus Mandarin native speakers, and to provide practical recommendations with examples of how motion event research can respond to the epistemological challenges that this emerging data elicitation method faces.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom
- Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in motion event conceptualisation in bilingual speakers of Spanish and English
- Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications
- Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception
- Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions
- How concept-based language instruction works in teaching thinking for speaking in an L2
- Review Article
- A bibliometric analysis of the IRAL over the past six decades
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Approaching motion in a second language: how bilinguals restructure motion event expressions inside and outside the classroom
- Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in motion event conceptualisation in bilingual speakers of Spanish and English
- Motion event construal in L2 French and Italian: from acquisitional perspectives to pedagogical implications
- Low-level visual processing of motion events as a window into language-specific effects on perception
- Developing L2 learners’ metaphoric competence: a case study of figurative motion constructions
- How concept-based language instruction works in teaching thinking for speaking in an L2
- Review Article
- A bibliometric analysis of the IRAL over the past six decades