Although the typological contrast between Romance and Germanic languages as verb-framed versus satellite-framed (Talmy 1985) forms the background for many empirical studies on L2 acquisition, the inconclusive picture to date calls for more differentiated, fine-grained analyses. The present study goes beyond explanations based on this typological contrast and takes into account the sources from which spatial concepts are mainly derived in order to shape the trajectory traced by the entity in motion when moving through space: the entity in V-languages versus features of the ground in S-languages. It investigates why advanced French learners of English and German have difficulty acquiring the use of spatial concepts typical of the L2s to shape the trajectory, although relevant concepts can be expressed in their L1. The analysis compares motion event descriptions, based on the same sets of video clips, of L1 speakers of the three languages to L1 French-L2 English and L1 French-L2 German speakers, showing that the learners do not fully acquire the use of L2-specific spatial concepts. We argue that encoded concepts derived from the entity in motion vs. the ground lead to a focus on different aspects of motion events, in accordance with their compatibility with these sources, and are difficult to restructure in L2 acquisition.
2022. Thinking-for-speaking patterns in the L2 classroom: A mindful conceptual engagement approach to teaching motion events. Frontiers in Communication 7
Bylund, Emanuel & Panos Athanasopoulos
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Flecken, Monique, Mary Carroll, Katja Weimar & Christiane Von Stutterheim
2015. Driving Along the Road or Heading for the Village? Conceptual Differences Underlying Motion Event Encoding in French, German, and French–German L2 Users. The Modern Language Journal 99:S1 ► pp. 100 ff.
Gerwien, Johannes & Monique Flecken
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Gerwien, Johannes & Christiane von Stutterheim
2018. Event segmentation: Cross-linguistic differences in verbal and non-verbal tasks. Cognition 180 ► pp. 225 ff.
Gerwien, Johannes & Christiane von Stutterheim
2022. Conceptual Blending Across Ontological Domains—References to Time and Space in Motion Events by Tunisian Arabic Speakers of L2 German. Frontiers in Communication 7
Hickmann, Maya, Helen Engemann, Efstathia Soroli, Henriette Hendriks & Coralie Vincent
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Lambert, Monique, Christiane von Stutterheim, Mary Carroll & Johannes Gerwien
2022. Under the surface. Language, Interaction and Acquisition 13:1 ► pp. 1 ff.
Lewandowski, Wojciech
2022. Bilingual patterns of path encoding: A study of Polish L1-German L2 and Polish L1-Spanish L2 speakers
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Liao, Yiyun, Monique Flecken, Katinka Dijkstra & Rolf A. Zwaan
2020. Going places in Dutch and mandarin Chinese: conceptualising the path of motion cross-linguistically. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:4 ► pp. 498 ff.
Repiso, Isabel, C. Granget, M.-A. Dat, D. Guedat-Bittighoffer & C. Cuet
2017. Counterfactual Conceptualizations in L2 French: From Cognitive Principles to Semantic and Lexical Realizations. SHS Web of Conferences 38 ► pp. 00006 ff.
Sakarias, Maria & Monique Flecken
2019. Keeping the Result in Sight and Mind: General Cognitive Principles and Language‐Specific Influences in the Perception and Memory of Resultative Events. Cognitive Science 43:1
2020. The roles of language mode and dominance in French–German bilinguals’ motion event descriptions. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 23:3 ► pp. 519 ff.
von Stutterheim, Christiane, Abbassia Bouhaous & Mary Carroll
2017. From time to space: The impact of aspectual categories on the construal of motion events: The case of Tunisian Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic. Linguistics 55:1
von Stutterheim, Christiane, Johannes Gerwien, Abassia Bouhaous, Mary Carroll & Monique Lambert
2020. What makes up a reportable event in a language? Motion events as an important test domain in linguistic typology. Linguistics 58:6 ► pp. 1659 ff.
VON STUTTERHEIM, CHRISTIANE, MONIQUE LAMBERT & JOHANNES GERWIEN
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Watorek, Marzena & Sophie Wauquier-Gravelines
2016. Diversité d’approches et de méthodes en acquisition des langues secondes. Revue française de linguistique appliquée Vol. XXI:2 ► pp. 5 ff.
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2014. LCO volume 6 issue 1 Cover and Back matter. Language and Cognition 6:1 ► pp. b1 ff.
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