27 research outputs found
Cutting and breaking events: A crosslinguistic perspective. Special Issue of: Cognitive Linguistics (18,2)
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Kidsâ cut & break
Kidsâ Cut & Break is a task inspired by the original Cut & Break task (see MPI L&C Group Field Manual 2001), but designed for use with children as well as adults. There are fewer videoclips to be described (34 as opposed to 61), and they are âfriendlierâ and more interesting: the actors wear colorful clothes, smile, and act cheerfully. The first 2 items are warm-ups and 4 more items are fillers (interspersed with test items), so only 28 of the items are actually âtest itemsâ. In the original Cut & Break, each clip is in a separate file. In Kidsâ Cut & Break, all 34 clips are edited into a single file, which plays the clips successively with 5 seconds of black screen between each clip
Event categorization: A cross-linguistic perspective
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M_356379(p.885-890).pdf (publisher's version ) (Open Access)The 26th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 5 augustus 200
The cross-linguistic categorization of everyday events: A study of cutting and breaking
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Put project: The cross-linguistic encoding of placement events
How similar are the event concepts encoded by different languages? So far, few event domains have been investigated in any detail. The PUT project extends the systematic cross-linguistic exploration of event categorisation to a new domain, that of placement events (putting things in places and removing them from places). The goal of this task is to explore cross-linguistic universality and variability in the semantic categorisation of placement events (e.g., âputting a cup on the tableâ)