Helen Engemann

Hickmann, Maya †, Helen Engemann, Efstathia Soroli, Henriëtte Hendriks and Coralie Vincent 2017 Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English: Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languages Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide (ed.), pp. 61–94 | Chapter

Language-specific properties influence motion expression (Slobin 2004; Talmy 2000), but it is still debated whether they also influence non-verbal spatial cognition. We compare how English and French speakers perform three tasks involving motion events: non-verbal categorization based on cartoons… read more

Harr, Anne-Katharina and Helen Engemann 2013 The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition: Caused motion expressions in English and French Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 101–127 | Article

The present study compares (1) monolingual English vs. French adults and children and (2) simultaneous French-English bilingual children who describe caused motion events. The results concerning L1 speakers showed developmental progressions in both languages, e.g. utterance complexity increases… read more

Engemann, Helen, Anne-Katharina Harr and Maya Hickmann † 2012 12. Caused motion events across languages and learner types: A comparison of bilingual first and adult second language acquisition Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 263–288 | Article

The present chapter shares the interest of preceding contributions in the consequences of cross-linguistic diversity for language acquisition. We explore the implications of Talmy’s motion event typology (see also Luk and Vidaković, this volume) for bilingual first and adult second language… read more

Harr, Anne-Katharina and Helen Engemann 2011 The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition: Caused motion expressions in English and French Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 101–128 | Article

The present study compares (1) monolingual English vs. French adults and children and (2) simultaneous French-English bilingual children who describe caused motion events. The results concerning L1 speakers showed developmental progressions in both languages, e.g., utterance complexity increases… read more

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Language, Interaction and Acquisition (LIA)

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