How language impacts memory of motion events in English and French

Engemann, Helen; Hendriks, Henriëtte; Hickmann, Maya; Soroli, Eva; Vincent, Coralie

Document type :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1007/s10339-015-0696-7

PMID :

26233527

Title :

How language impacts memory of motion events in English and French

Author(s) :

Engemann, Helen [Auteur]
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Hendriks, Henriëtte [Auteur]
University of Cambridge [UK] [CAM]
Hickmann, Maya [Auteur]
Structures Formelles du Langage [SFL]
Soroli, Eva [Auteur]

Université de Lille
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Vincent, Coralie [Auteur]
Structures Formelles du Langage [SFL]

Journal title :

Cognitive Processing

Pages :

209-213

Publisher :

Springer Verlag

Publication date :

2015-08

ISSN :

1612-4782

English keyword(s) :

Spatial cognition
cross-linguistic variation
motion events
memory
language and thought

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Psychologie

English abstract : [en]

This paper examines whether cross-linguistic differences in motion encoding affect event processing, specifically memory performance. We compared speakers of two languages which differ strikingly in how they habitually ...
Show more >This paper examines whether cross-linguistic differences in motion encoding affect event processing, specifically memory performance. We compared speakers of two languages which differ strikingly in how they habitually encode MANNER and PATH of motion (Talmy 2000). We tested French and English adult native speakers across three tasks that recruited and/or suppressed verbal processing to different extents: verbal event descriptions elicited on the basis of dynamic motion stimuli, a verbal memory task testing the impact of prior verbalisation on target recognition, and a non-verbal memory task, using a dual-task paradigm to suppress internal verbalisation. Results showed significant group differences in the verbal description task, which mirrored expected typological tendencies. English speakers more frequently expressed both MANNER and PATH information than French speakers, who produced more descriptions encoding either PATH or MANNER alone. However, these differences in linguistic encoding did not significantly affect speakers' memory performance in the memory recognition tasks, neither in the verbal nor in the non-verbal condition. The findings contribute to current debates regarding the conditions under which language effects occur and the relative weight of language-specific and universal constraints on spatial cognition.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

ANR Project :

Structure de l'énoncé en contexte : langage et cognition au cours de l'acquisition - perspective translinguistique

Collections :

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

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