Boundary-crossing events across languages: A study on English speakers, Spanish speakers and second language learners

Rosa Alonso Alonso ^[1]
1. [1] Universidade de Vigo
  
  Universidade de Vigo
  
  Vigo, España
Localización: Review of cognitive linguistics, ISSN 1877-9751, Vol. 18, Nº. 2 (December 2020), 2020, págs. 316-349
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- This study analyses how speakers of two typologically distinct first languages (English (N = 12) and Spanish (N = 16)) and a group of 19 Spanish second language learners of English express boundary-crossing events, what type of verb they use, and how they segment these motion events. The stimuli used were 12 pictures of boundary-crossing events indicating motion into, out of and over a bounded space. In task 1 participants described each of the 12 scenes freely and in task 2 they were provided with a specific Manner verb between brackets. Significant differences were found in boundary-crossing and event segmentation in both L1 and L2. Participants also differed significantly in the type of verb used in the two tasks.