This inquiry examines the relationship between language and cognition by testing how monolingual speakers (3-year-olds, 8-year-olds and adults) who speak languages with partial typological differences in motion description (English and Chinese) reply to visual motion event stimuli in a triads matching task. Overall, the results point out that children's non-linguistic thought is similar prior to the internalisation of the lexicalisation patterns of motion events in their native languages, but it does not show language-specific divergences after such habitual use.