Cognitive Linguistics and the Study of Chinese

This study examines (non)linguistic representations of caused motion by Chinese and English children in two cartoon-based experiments. Findings of the language production task reveal that typological properties influence the semantic density of children’s utterances. Regardless of age, children express denser semantic information in Chinese than in English. In the non-linguistic match-to-sample task, children of 3 years are found to be predominantly path-oriented, as evidenced by their sign