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Publication details [#61843]

Bergen, Benjamin K. and Nian Liu. 2016. When do language comprehenders mentally simulate locations? Cognitive Linguistics 27 (2) : 181–204.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

The role of mental location simulation (MLS) in language comprehension is evidenced by a Location-sentence Compatibility test, as far as progressive grammatical aspect is employed in sentences, and MLS diverges for language on real versus abstract events.