Learning verbs of movement in a foreign language: spanish students of english in a formal context

[EN] Native speakers of different languages may conflate reality in different ways. One of the most illustrative examples of this idea is movement and the divergences in its lexicalization on the part of the native speakers of English and Spanish. The present study focuses on the lexicalization of motion events in the learners¿ interlanguage. We compare the use of Path and Manner verbs in two groups of native speakers of Spanish studying English at elementary and advanced levels. The way movement was conflated by the advanced group was reasonably close to the English way, whereas the elementary group was still far from the English lexicalization of movement. These results support the language-based theories on cognition as they show that differences of L2 proficiency may have an influence in the way motion is lexicalized in the L2. ; Alcaraz Mármol, G. (2013). Learning verbs of movement in a foreign language: spanish students of english in a formal context. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas. 8(1):154-160. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2013.1172 ; 154 ; 160 ; 8 ; 1 ; Berman, R. and Slobin, D. (1994). Relating Events in Narrative: A Crosslinguistic Developmental Study. Hillsdale: Erlbaum. ; Bowerman, M. (1996). "The Origins of Children's Spatial Semantic Categories: Cognitive versus Linguistic Determinants". in J. Gumperz and S. Levinson (eds.) Rethinking Linguistic Relativity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 145-76. ; Brown, P. and Levinson, S. (1993). " 'Uphill' and 'Downhill' in Tzeltal". Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 3/1, 46-74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jlin.1993.3.1.46 ; Choi, S. and Bowerman, M. (1991). "Learning to express motion events in English and Korean: the in the influence of language-specific lexicalization patterns", Cognition 41/1, 83-121. Comrie, B. (1981). Language Universals and Linguistic Typology: Syntax and Morphology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ; Folli, R and H. Harley (2005). "Flavours of v: Consuming Results in Italian and English", en P. Kempchinsky and ...