Acknowledgments

CHAPTER 1 Space in language and cognition

CHAPTER 2 The linguistic encoding of motion events by English and
Chinese children�� A review of Ji 2015
2��1 The theoretical background of the study
2��2 Research methodologies of the study

CHAPTER 3 The expression of caused motion events by adult
Chinese learners of English
3��1 Motion expressions in first ��L1��and second language ��L2�� acquisition
3��2 The status of L1 English and L2 Chinese in motion event typology
3��3 Methodology
3��4 Results
3��5 Discussion and conclusion

CHAPTER 4 Syntactic packaging of caused motion components by English learners of Chinese
4��1 Introduction
4��2 The acquisition of motion expressions at the semantics-syntax interface
4��3 Additional information about encoding caused motion in Chinese
4��4 Methodology
4��5 Results
4��6 Discussion
4��7 Conclusion

CHAPTER 5 Conceptualizing voluntary motion events beyond language use�� a comparison of English and
Chinese speakers
5��1 Introduction
5��2 Motion representations at linguistic and cognitive levels
5��3 Linguistic encoding of motion events in English and Chinese
5��4 Research questions and hypotheses
5��5 Methodology
5��6 Results
5��7 Discussion and conclusion

CHAPTER 6 English and Chinese children's similarity judgments of caused motion events
6��1 Introduction
6��2 Motion representation in language and cognition
6��3 Motion description from a developmental perspective
6��4 Predictions
6��5 Methodology
6��6 Results
6��7 Discussion and conclusion

CHAPTER 7 Representing motion in an interdisciplinary framework

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