APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
Spatial Representation of Temporal Order in Mandarin/English Bilingual and English Monolingual Speakers: Evidence from Eye-Movement
- Erxiao Wang
Teachers College, Columbia University - Shan An
Alumni of Teachers College, Columbia University - Rui Zheng
Teachers College, Columbia University - Peter Gordon
Teachers College, Columbia University
Abstract
This study will employ eye-tracking to investigate cross-linguistic and cross-cultural spatial-temporal representation. We hypothesize that native speakers of Mandarin or English exhibit distinct spatial organization preferences in representing temporal concepts, aligning with their linguistic use of spatial metaphors in the prepositional structuring of time.