How language impacts memory of motion events in English and French

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

Type de document :

Compte-rendu et recension critique d'ouvrage

DOI :

10.1007/s10339-015-0696-7

PMID :

26233527

Titre :

How language impacts memory of motion events in English and French

Auteur(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]

Titre de la revue :

Cognitive Processing

Pagination :

209-213

Éditeur :

Springer Verlag

Date de publication :

2015-08

ISSN :

1612-4782

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

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

Discipline(s) HAL :

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

Résumé en anglais : [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 ...
Lire la suite >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.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Projet ANR :

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

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Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

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