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Ercenur Ünal¹, Yue Ji², Anna Papafragou³

¹Department of Psychology, Ozyegin University.

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Keywords:

Boundedness Event boundaries Event cognition Event roles Telicity Thematic roles

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Neuroscience

Background:

Human cognition involves parsing experiences into meaningful event representations.
Communicating about experienced events relies on preverbal cognitive processes.
The link between preverbal event conceptualization and language production is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To review recent evidence on the connection between event conceptualization and language.
To focus on event roles and event boundaries as key aspects of event representation.
To explore the cognitive underpinnings of how events are mapped onto linguistic structures.

Main Methods:

Review of empirical evidence linking cognitive event representation and linguistic encoding.
Analysis of studies focusing on event roles in cognition and language.
Examination of research on event boundaries in cognitive processing and linguistic expression.

Main Results:

Cognitive representations of events show alignment with linguistic encoding of event roles.
Evidence supports a strong correspondence between cognitive and linguistic event boundaries.
Empirical findings suggest deep homologies between cognitive and linguistic event structures.

Conclusions:

The way humans represent events cognitively mirrors how these events are linguistically encoded.
Event roles and boundaries are crucial cognitive components reflected in language.
Deep structural similarities exist between cognitive event conceptualization and linguistic event structure.