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Chapter 1 Introduction: Representing Motion Events Within and Beyond Language
Chapter 2 Narrating Motion Events in an L2--Evidence from English and Korean Learners of Chinese 13
2.1 How English learners across proficiencies acquire motion expressions in Chinese: A review of study by Ji (2021)
2.2 How Korean learners across proficiencies acquire motion expressions in Chinese: A review of study by Jin (2020)
Chapter 3 Motion Event Cognition in Bilingual Speakers
3.1 Representing motion events in an L2 context
3.2 Manner-salience in English and Manner- and Path-salience in Chinese
3.3 Motion event cognition in L2 learners
Chapter 4 The Coneeptualisation of Voluntary Motion Events in L2 English Learners (Experiment 1 )
4.1 Predictions
4.2 Methodology
4.2.1 Participants
4.2.2 Materials
4.2.3 Pretest
4.2.4 Testing session
4.2.5 Coding
4.3 Results
4.3.1 Mean number of Manner-matches and Path-matches across 5 participant groups
4.3.2 RT in judgment across 5 groups of participants
4.4 Discussion
Chapter 5 The Coneeptualisation of Caused Motion Events in L2 English Learners ( Experiment 2)
5.1 Research questions and hypotheses
5.2 Materials
5.3 Results
5.3.1 Number of Manner- and Path-matched judgments across 5 participant groups
5.3.2 RT in Manner- and Path-matched judgments across 5 participant groups
5.4 Discussion
Chapter 6 Conceptualising Motion Events in L2 Chinese Learners ( Experiments 3)
6.1 Research methodologies
6.2 Results
6.2.1 Mean proportion of Manner-matches and Path-matches across 4 participant groups
6.2.2 The proportion of Path-matches across stimulus items
6.2.3 RT across 4 participant groups
6.3 Discussion of the results
Chapter 7 General Remarks
7.1 Significance of the study
7.2 Directions for future research
References
Appendices