Fictive motion involves mental simulation in second language comprehension

摘要：

　　Recent studies have confirmed that people produce mental simulation when processing sentences including literal motion,abstract motion or fictive motion.However,the doubt is whether EFL learners mentally simulate fictive motion during language comprehension as native English speaker did.The paper addressed the question with simulation time effects,one of the experimental methods in simulation semantics in one experiment made of 4 tasks.In each task,subjects read a short story --- slow versus fast scenario,easy versus difficult scenario and short versus long distance scenario,then made a timed decision whether the target fictive motion sentence related to the story or not.The results are that the response latency in different scenarios is significant.Thereby we conclude that EFL learners activates mental simulation in the same way as native English speaker when processing sentences involved the fictive motion.

关键词： mental simulation fictive motion sentence EFL learner second language comprehension

作者: Pan Ling Li zhiyi Fan Jing

作者单位: Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Zhengzhou,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2016 International Conference on Economics and Management Innovations(2016经济与管理创新国际会议)

会议地点: 武汉

会议语种:英文

页码: 33-36

在线出版日期: 2016-07-09（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）