APS

2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024

Spatial Representation of Temporal Order in Mandarin/English Bilingual and English Monolingual Speakers: Evidence from Eye-Movement

San Francisco, CA · May 2024

Poster · Cognitive

  • 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.

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