Does Grammatical Aspect Affect Motion Event Cognition? A Cross‐Linguistic Comparison of English and Swedish Speakers

• DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12006
• Publication Date: 2012-10-24T14:46:11Z
• Authors: Panos Athanasopoulos; Emanuel Bylund
• Keywords: Affect; Similarity (geometry)

Abstract In this article, we explore whether cross‐linguistic differences in grammatical aspect encoding may give rise to memory and cognition. We compared native speakers of two languages that encode differently (English Swedish) four tasks examined verbal descriptions stimuli, online triads matching, memory‐based matching with without interference. Results showed between‐group matching. However, no were found These findings need be interpreted the context overall pattern performance, which indicated both groups based their similarity judgments on common perceptual characteristics motion events. results show for first time a difference as function encoding, but they also contribute emerging view language fine tunes rather than shapes processes are likely universal unchanging.