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Matthew Finkbeiner1, Janet Nicol, Delia Greth

  • 1University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0025, USA. msf@u.arizona.edu

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
|January 17, 2003
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Language differences in motion event description affect memory. English speakers showed a language effect in memory tasks, but not in analysis tasks, suggesting working memory influences linguistic relativity.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Languages vary in how they express motion events, with English often linking motion and manner, unlike Japanese and Spanish.
  • Linguistic relativity suggests a language's structure can influence thought and perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how cross-linguistic differences in motion event lexicalization impact cognitive processing.
  • To determine if task demands, specifically memory encoding versus analysis, modulate the observed language effects.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a similarity-judgment task using novel animated motion stimuli.
  • Experiment 1 required brief memory encoding of stimuli, while Experiment 2 focused on stimulus analysis without memory demands.
  • Cross-linguistic comparisons were made between speakers of different languages.

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Main Results:

  • A significant language effect was observed in Experiment 1, where memory encoding was required.
  • This language effect disappeared in Experiment 2 when participants only analyzed the stimuli.
  • The findings indicate a task-dependent influence of language on perception.

Conclusions:

  • Working memory plays a crucial role in mediating the linguistic relativity effect observed in motion event perception.
  • Task demands can modulate the impact of language on cognition, highlighting the dynamic nature of linguistic influence.