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Chapter 1 Introduction:Representing Motion Events Within and Beyond Language
Chapter 2 Narrating Motion Events in an L2-Evidence from English and Korean Learners of Chinese 13
2.1 How English learners across proficiencies acquire motion expressions in Chinese:A review of study by Ji (2021)
2.2 How Korean learners across proficiencies acquire motion expressions in Chinese:A review of study by Jin (2020)
Chapter 3 Motion Event Cognition in Bilingual Speakers
3.1 Representing motion events in an L2 context
3.2 Manner-salience in English and Manner-and Path-salience in Chinese
3.3 Motion event cognition in L2 learners
Chapter 4 The Coneeptualisation of Voluntary Motion Events in L2 English Learners (Experiment 1)
4.1 Predictions
4.2 Methodology
4.2.1 Participants
4.2.2 Materials
4.2.3 Pretest
4.2.4 Testing session
4.2.5 Coding
4.3 Results
4.3.1 Mean number of Manner-matches and Path-matches across 5 participant groups
4.3.2 RT in judgment across 5 groups of participants
4.4 Discussion
Chapter 5 The Coneeptualisation of Caused Motion Events in L2 English Learners ( Experiment 2)
5.1 Research questions and hypotheses
5.2 Materials
5.3 Results
5.3.1 Number of Manner-and Path-matched judgments across 5 participant groups
5.3.2 RT in Manner-and Path-matched judgments across 5 participant groups
5.4 Discussion
Chapter 6 Conceptualising Motion Events in L2 Chinese Learners ( Experiments 3)
6.1 Research methodologies
6.2 Results
6.2.1 Mean proportion of Manner-matches and Path-matches across 4 participant groups
6.2.2 The proportion of Path-matches across stimulus items
6.2.3 RT across 4 participant groups
6.3 Discussion of the results
Chapter 7 General Remarks
7.1 Significance of the study
7.2 Directions for future research
References
Appendices
本書為國家社科基金項目“英漢雙語學習者運動事件的心理呈現”（15BYY063）研究成果。 薩不爾-沃爾夫假說認為，語言決定了人的思維方式。雖然後人對此假說提出了種種不同的看法，但語言與思維關繫的問題，歷來受到多個領域學者的關注。如果說話者在嬰幼兒階段學會母語後即發展出一種與之對應的思維模式，那麼到他長大後學習第二種語言（外語）時，是否意味著他要習得一種新的思維模式？本研究采用相似性判斷的行為實驗範式，通過範疇化（顯性層面的選擇策略）和連續性（隱性層面的反應時）兩種測量手段考察了英漢單語學習者和不同水平的英漢雙語學習者對空間運動事件的心理概念化過程。 研究發現，首先，所有被試均傾向於依靠運動路徑（而非運動方式）是否相似來判斷運動事件之間的整體相似性。其次，反應時的分析顯示，在判斷運動事件的整體反應時上，漢語單語人群顯著短於英語單語人群，表明英漢兩種語言的空間事件類型學差異及其等
