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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