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- Title
Minding the manner: attention to motion events in Turkish–Dutch early bilinguals.
- Authors
Kamenetski, Anna; Lai, Vicky Tzuyin; Flecken, Monique
- Abstract
Languages differ in the way motion events are encoded. In satellite-framed languages, motion verbs typically encode manner, while in verb-framed languages, path. We investigated the ways in which satellite-framed Dutch and verb-framed Turkish co-determine one's attention to motion events in early bilinguals. In an EEG oddball paradigm, Turkish–Dutch bilinguals (n = 25) and Dutch controls (n = 27) watched short video clips of motion events, followed by a still picture that matched the preceding video in four ways (oddball design: 10% full match, 10% manner match, 10% endpoint match, and 70% full mismatch). We found that both groups showed similar oddball P300 effects, associated with task-related attention. Group differences were revealed in a late positivity (LP): The endpoint-match elicited a larger LP than the manner-match in the bilinguals, which may reflect language-driven attention. Our results indicate that cross-linguistic manner encoding difference impacts attention at a later stage.
- Subjects
VERBS; BILINGUALISM; VIDEO excerpts; ATTENTION
- Publication
Language & Cognition (Cambridge University Press), 2022, Vol 14, Issue 3, p456
- ISSN
1866-9808
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/langcog.2022.10