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SUMMARY:See\, say and remember: Motion events in witness interviews\,  tra
 nslation and memory - Dr Luna Filipovic\, Department of Linguistics\, Univ
 ersity of Cambridge
DTSTART:20091029T170000Z
DTEND:20091029T183000Z
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CONTACT:Ruth Cumming
DESCRIPTION:The impact of particular languages on perception and memory fo
 r motion events is investigated in two typologically different languages\,
  Spanish and English. In a set of similarity judgment and recognition memo
 ry tasks speakers resort to certain atomic\, language-independent features
  of motion rather than to complex\, language-specific lexical concepts.  C
 ertain contexts of use do provide evidence for the impact of language-spec
 ific effects on memory\, however\, and contrastive examples from the two l
 anguages are given from both monolingual and bilingual speakers. The resul
 ts enable us to tease apart universal features of language from those that
  are language-specific. I illustrate further the ways in which these typol
 ogical differences affect the translation of motion events in witness inte
 rviews. The findings have relevance for claims of universality in the conc
 eptualization of events and for the interplay between language and cogniti
 on in relation to motion events.
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