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Publication details [#44197]

Gentner, Dedre and Paula Cifuentes-Férez. 2006. Naming motion events in Spanish and English. Cognitive Linguistics 17 (4) : 443–462.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inference | meaning | movement | naming1 | verb

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/COGL/html

Annotation

This paper employs Nagy and Gentner's (1990) novel word mapping technique to examine whether the differing semantic systems of English and Spanish speakers affect their inferring of meanings of novel motion verbs.