Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition
Speakers of verb-initial languages and verb-medial languages interpret the world differently: A comparative study of Truku Seediq and English.
Manami Sato, Yingyi Luo, Amy J Schafer, Apay Ai-Yu Tang, Hajime Ono, Hiromu Sakai, Masatoshi Koizumi
Published: 202510.1037/xlm0001525
Abstract
Recent gesture studies investigating how speakers linearize events in which one entity acts on another have claimed that the preferred order is [subject/agent]-[object/patient]-[verb/action] (SOV/APV) irrespective of language background (Schouwstra e…
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