Feinmann, D. (2020) Language and thought in the motion domain : methodological considerations and new empirical evidence. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 49 (1). pp. 1-29. ISSN 0090-6905
Abstract
This study investigates whether there is a relation between how motion is linguistically expressed and how it is conceptualised. To do this, native speakers of two languages that differ typologically in how they encode telic motion (English and Spanish) are compared in both a verbal and a non-verbal experiment. The preferred non-verbal methods to test the linguistic relativity hypothesis in this domain have so far been recognition memory and binary judgments. This study questions the experimental validity of these approaches and implements an alternative method which combines similarity ratings with a verbal interference manipulation. The results reported here constitute evidence against linguistic relativity and in support of cognitive universalism.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
Keywords: | Linguistic relativity; Whorf; Motion cognition; Path; Manner; Similarity ratings; Verbal interference; English; Spanish |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Sep 2019 13:06 |
Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2021 14:31 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10936-019-09668-5 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:150684 |
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