Time and Space in Language and Cognition
The "Time and Space group" explores how speakers of different languages represent and encode spatial and temporal information. What are universals in the representation of time and space? How can linguistic diversity be properly captured? How does the linguistic repertoire in one language affect attention allocation in non-linguistic domains?
A Case for Semantic Underspecification? The Representation of Aspectual Class Information for Motion Verbs and Directional Prepositions
This project investigates the cognitive processing of aspectual class (AC) information in descriptions of motion events.
Read more...Event duration estimations are modulated by grammatical aspect
This project investigates the effect of grammatical aspect marking on speakers’ estimations of the duration of highly familiar, everyday events.
Read more...Event units and event segmentation in verbal and non verbal tasks
In this project, we explore to what extent the cognitive units speakers construct to verbalize motion events correlate with units that people rely on in non-verbal tasks.
Read more...LANG-ACROSS: Utterance structure in context - L1 & L2 acquisition in a cross-linguistic perspective
This project focuses on cognitive and linguistic determinants of language acquisition in a cross-linguistic perspective, with a main focus on conceptualizations of space and time.
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