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SUMMARY:Cognition and spatial representations beyond language use - Efstat
 hia Soroli and Maya Hickmann\, Laboratoire Structures Formelles du Langage
 \, CNRS and Universite de Paris 8
DTSTART:20091208T160000Z
DTEND:20091208T173000Z
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CONTACT:Chris Cummins
DESCRIPTION:Languages differ in how they lexicalize and grammaticalize spa
 tial information (Talmy\, 2000).  Such properties constrain how speakers o
 rganize spatial information to encode motion in discourse (Choi & Bowerman
 \, 1991\; Hickmann et al.\, 2008\; Slobin\, 2004)\, thereby raising new qu
 estions concerning the relation between language and cognition.  Germanic 
 languages (verb-framed) such as English express manner in the root verb an
 d path in satellites\, while Romance languages (satellite-framed) such as 
 French lexicalize path in the verb\, leaving manner implicit or expressing
  it in the periphery of the sentence (e.g. She ran across the street vs. E
 lle a traverse la rue [en courant]\, Lit. 'She crossed the road running').
   Such striking differences are of great relevance for opening new perspec
 tives in the study of linguistic pathology and more specifically for the s
 tudy of aphasic patients who typically present dissociations between lexic
 al and grammatical capacities and deficits.
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