Edited by Andrea C. Schalley
[Human Cognitive Processing 40] 2012
► pp. 55–70
Patterns of linguistic encoding influence infant event representations, and fundamental prelinguistic semantic categories are reflected in linguistic structures. We report a study investigating 10-month-old infants’ encoding of action roles in a ditransitive give-and-take event by using a combination of looking time and eyetracking techniques. Results indicate that distinctive encoding strategies of a role reversal in a give-and-take event are associated with looking-time patterns: infants whose looking times indicate an understanding of the role reversal between agent and recipient track actions on an agent-specific basis, rather than on spatial parameters of the scene. Findings are discussed with regard to how our understanding of interaction between non-linguistic and linguistic representations can benefit from close interdisciplinary cooperation between linguists and developmental psychologists. Keywords:action roles; intentional relations; prelinguistic concepts
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