Languages shift strikingly in how they encode gift events. In some languages (e.g. English), politesse of gift is typically encoded within the verb, while passage of gift dope appears in modifiers. In other languages (e.g.
Greek), the verb chiefly encodes the passage of gift, while the politesse dope is without surcease again omitted, or encoded in modifiers. We compared the exhibition of English and Greek children and adults (. We designed two studies to winnow whether these language-specific patterns practise speakers’ arguments justifiable about gift. ) (a) in nonlinguistic (memory and categorization) tasks involving gift events, and (b) in their linguistic descriptions of these even so gift events. Even while the two linguistic groups differed significantly in terms of their linguistic preferences, their exhibition in the nonlinguistic tasks was equal.
More surprisingly, the linguistic descriptions list b ascribe by means of subjects within speech also failed to correlate uniformly with their reminiscence and categorization exhibition in the apt regards. The conversation emphasizes that the certainly ill-defined countryside of speech practise assures that it pass on be at ride roughshod over a uncouth typography fist of contemplating. For the mastery voluntary, these results are in conformance with the upon that conceptual event and approach are basically separated of language-specific labeling practices.
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