From event representation to linguistic meaning
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 …
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 …
structured representation of event components at the perceptual/conceptual level, little …
Sources and goals in memory and language: Fragility and robustness in event representation
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 …
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 …
encoding for the description and online inspection of causative events. English-speaking …
Roles for event representations in sensorimotor experience, memory formation, and language processing
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 …
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 …
when describing events (“the bird flew into the pitcher,” rather than “… out of the bucket into …