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Yue Ji¹, Anna Papafragou²

¹Department of English, School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Institute of Technology, No. 8 and 9 Yards, Liangxiang East Road, Fangshan District, Beijing 102488, China.

|January 10, 2026

概括

事件认知受到事件局限性的影响. 尽管在描述事件终点 (telecity) 的语言差异,英语和普通话的人看待事件结构是相似的.

科学领域:

认知科学认知科学
语言学的语言学.
心理学心理学心理学

背景情况:

事件认知区分有明确终点的有界事件和没有界限的无界事件.
在语言中,telicity是指表达固有的终点的动词短语,在不同语言中各不相同.
在telicity编码的跨语言差异可能会影响事件局限性的感知.

研究的目的:

调查跨语言的变化是否会影响对事件局限性的感知.
为了比较母语英语和普通话说者如何表示事件时间结构.

主要方法:

实验1:评估英语和普通话发言人之间在事件描述中使用telicity的差异.
实验2:评估参与者对具有自然终点的事件发生概率的评分.
实验3:使用感知任务来检查注意力对有界事件与无界事件的时间结构.

主要成果:

英语和普通话的人在语言描述事件的描述方面表现出差异.
这两个语言组在判断事件的自然终点概率方面表现相似.
来自两种语言背景的参与者在参与事件时间结构方面表现出相似的能力.

结论:

跨语言的差异似乎不会改变对事件局限性的基本认知.
事件时间概况的表示显示了跨语言的共同点.
事件认知对局限性的敏感性在不同语言背景下是强大的.

关键词:

视角方面视角方面有限制的局限性英语英语英语英语英语英语英语英语事件认知事件认知.事件感知事件感知.这是普通话的普通话.泰利西蒂 (Telicity) 是一个神奇的东西.

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