acknowledgments
abbreviations
chapter 1 space in language typology and language
  acquisition
  1.1 space across languages
  1.2 space in language development
  1.3 the study of space in chinese
  1.4 synopsis
chapter 2 encoding motion events: typological and developmental
  perspectives
  2.1 lexicalization patterns of motion events across
  languages
  2.2 universality vs.language-specificity regarding
  space in child language
chapter 3 encoding motion events: linguistic devices and their
  acquisition
  3.1 encoding motion events in english
  3.2 encoding motion events in chinese
chapter 4 methodologies in analyzing motion expressions ...
  4.1 research questions and hypotheses
  4.2 research design and stimuli
  4.3 data transcription and data coding
chapter 5 a comparison of english and chinese in adults'
  production
  5.1 the voluntary motion task
  5.2 the caused motion task
  5.3 the typological status of chinese in a bipartite
  typology
chapter 6 universal and language-specific influences in children's
  acquisition of voluntary motion expressions
  6.1 the m + p response with test items
  6.2 the manner-only response with control items
  6.3 concluding remarks regarding the vm task
chapter 7 universality and language-specificity in children's
  acquisition of caused motion expressions
  7.1 predictions
  7.2 results
  7.3 concluding remarks regarding the
  cm task
chapter 8 conclusions
  8.1 main findings and contributions of the
  present study
  8.2 directions for future research
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