Talks by Sophie Schieber
Prepositions are one of the most persistent non-target like features of non-native speech. Yet th... more Prepositions are one of the most persistent non-target like features of non-native speech. Yet the underlying reasons for these difficulties remain unknown and almost unexplored.
The hypothesis I want to test is whether the conceptualisation of a word includes a spatial feature, like grammatical gender and animacy features. This language-specific spatial feature only emerges when a lemma is bound to another one. The preposition chosen would thus be the actualisation of this spatial feature. This study is in line with work on grammatical gender and cognition; perception of the same inanimate object varies across languages according to its grammatical gender (Boroditsky, Schmidt, & Phillips, 2003).
In order to test the hypothesis described above, I will conduct a psycholinguistic experiment. The stimuli will consist in the picture of the head noun of a prepositional phrase immediately be followed by a grammaticality judgement task . A preposition will appear inside the picture of the head noun at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 50 milliseconds and will remain on screen for about 30ms so that it is masked. The picture of the head noun will remain for another 250ms. The grammaticality judgement task will test the space complement just primed.
Native speakers are predicted to be faster in the first condition, while there should be no differences between the second and third conditions. Non-native speakers are expected to be both faster and more accurate in the first condition, but significantly impeded in the second condition. The third condition will serve as a baseline.
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The hypothesis I want to test is whether the conceptualisation of a word includes a spatial feature, like grammatical gender and animacy features. This language-specific spatial feature only emerges when a lemma is bound to another one. The preposition chosen would thus be the actualisation of this spatial feature. This study is in line with work on grammatical gender and cognition; perception of the same inanimate object varies across languages according to its grammatical gender (Boroditsky, Schmidt, & Phillips, 2003).
In order to test the hypothesis described above, I will conduct a psycholinguistic experiment. The stimuli will consist in the picture of the head noun of a prepositional phrase immediately be followed by a grammaticality judgement task . A preposition will appear inside the picture of the head noun at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 50 milliseconds and will remain on screen for about 30ms so that it is masked. The picture of the head noun will remain for another 250ms. The grammaticality judgement task will test the space complement just primed.
Native speakers are predicted to be faster in the first condition, while there should be no differences between the second and third conditions. Non-native speakers are expected to be both faster and more accurate in the first condition, but significantly impeded in the second condition. The third condition will serve as a baseline.
Papers by Sophie Schieber
Thesis Chapters by Sophie Schieber
Drafts by Sophie Schieber
The hypothesis I want to test is whether the conceptualisation of a word includes a spatial feature, like grammatical gender and animacy features. This language-specific spatial feature only emerges when a lemma is bound to another one. The preposition chosen would thus be the actualisation of this spatial feature. This study is in line with work on grammatical gender and cognition; perception of the same inanimate object varies across languages according to its grammatical gender (Boroditsky, Schmidt, & Phillips, 2003).
In order to test the hypothesis described above, I will conduct a psycholinguistic experiment. The stimuli will consist in the picture of the head noun of a prepositional phrase immediately be followed by a grammaticality judgement task . A preposition will appear inside the picture of the head noun at a stimulus onset asynchrony of 50 milliseconds and will remain on screen for about 30ms so that it is masked. The picture of the head noun will remain for another 250ms. The grammaticality judgement task will test the space complement just primed.
Native speakers are predicted to be faster in the first condition, while there should be no differences between the second and third conditions. Non-native speakers are expected to be both faster and more accurate in the first condition, but significantly impeded in the second condition. The third condition will serve as a baseline.