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Papafragou, Anna; Hulbert, Justin; Trueswell, John – Cognition, 2008
Languages differ in how they encode motion. When describing bounded motion, English speakers typically use verbs that convey information about manner (e.g., "slide", "skip", "walk") rather than path (e.g., "approach", "ascend"), whereas Greek speakers do the opposite. We investigated whether this strong cross-language difference influences how…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Attention, Motion, Visual Perception