Grammatical aspect and temporal distance in motion descriptions
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Grammatical aspect and temporal distance in motion descriptions
Grammatical aspect is known to shape event understanding. However, little is known about how it interacts with other important temporal information, such as recent and distant past. The current work uses computer-mouse tracking (Spivey et al., 2005) to explore the interaction of aspect and temporal context. Participants in our experiment listened to past motion event descriptions that varied ac...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Psychology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00337