Language and thought in a multilingual context : The case of isiXhosa
(2014) In Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17(2). p.431-441- Abstract
- Situated within the grammatical aspect approach to motion event cognition, this study takes a first step in investigating language and thought in functional multilinguals by studying L1 isiXhosa speakers living in South Africa. IsiXhosa being a non-aspect language, the study investigates how the knowledge and use of additional languages with grammatical aspect influence cognition of endpoint-oriented motion events among L1 isiXhosa speakers. Results from a triads-matching task show that participants who often used aspect languages and had greater exposure to English in primary education were less prone to rely on endpoints when categorising motion events.
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- Bylund, Emanuel and Athanasopoulos, Panos LU
- publishing date
- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- linguistic relativity, motion events, grammatical aspect, multilingualism, isiXhosa
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- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
- volume
- 17
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 431 - 441
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
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- scopus:84902171163
- ISSN
- 1366-7289
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1366728913000503
- language
- English
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title = {{Language and thought in a multilingual context : The case of isiXhosa}},
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doi = {{10.1017/S1366728913000503}},
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