From event representation to linguistic meaning

E Ünal, Y Ji, A Papafragou - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A fundamental aspect of human cognition is the ability to parse our constantly unfolding
experience into meaningful representations of dynamic events and to communicate about …

Representing agents, patients, goals and instruments in causative events: A cross‐linguistic investigation of early language and cognition

E Ünal, C Richards, JC Trueswell… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Although it is widely assumed that the linguistic description of events is based on a
structured representation of event components at the perceptual/conceptual level, little …

Sources and goals in memory and language: Fragility and robustness in event representation

Y Chen, J Trueswell, A Papafragou - Journal of Memory and Language, 2024 - Elsevier
Previous research has demonstrated an asymmetry between Sources and Goals in people's
linguistic and non-linguistic encoding of motion events: when describing events such as a …

How children and adults encode causative events cross-linguistically: implications for language production and attention

A Bunger, D Skordos, JC Trueswell… - Language, Cognition …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigates the implications of language-specific constraints on linguistic event
encoding for the description and online inspection of causative events. English-speaking …

Roles for event representations in sensorimotor experience, memory formation, and language processing

A Knott, M Takac - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The unifying theme for the papers in this volume is that event‐predictive representations
play an important role in cognitive processes, and they are a particularly fruitful object of …

Does making something move matter? Representations of goals and sources in motion events with causal sources

L Lakusta, P Muentener, L Petrillo… - Cognitive …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have shown a robust bias to express the goal path over the source path
when describing events (“the bird flew into the pitcher,” rather than “… out of the bucket into …