10.18710/N8KO4OJi, YinglinYinglinJiShenzhen UniversityCognitive representation of spontaneous motion in a second languageDataverseNO2018Arts and Humanitiesmotion event cognitionlinguistic relativity hypothesisEnglishsecond language acquisitionMandarin ChineseJi, YinglinShenzhen UniversityShenzhen UniversityJi, YinglinYinglinJiThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)TheTromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)2018-11-122018-11-122023-09-28experimental data (psycholinguistic)10.3389/fpsyg.2019.0270644079904885672614811313623787156475168171131411109071152424139277165612149461146592172644137888163315142149185029161861148884text/plaintext/plaintext/plaintext/plaintext/plaintext/plaintext/plainimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpegimage/jpeg1.2CC0 1.0<p>This dataset is related to the project ‘Cognitive representation of spontaneous motion in a second language’. All files starting with “triad” are the stimulus data.</p> <p></p> <p>This psycholinguistic project tests whether Chinese–English bilinguals can reconstruct their cognitive pattern in the direction of the target system when judging the similarity between spontaneous motion screens. English main verbs encode Manner of motion only, while Chinese verb compounds express Manner and Path simultaneously. Chinese monolinguals are thus predicted to develop a motion cognition pattern highlighting both Manner and Path salience whereas English monolinguals are more likely to be Manner-oriented.</p> <p></p> <p>The data collected are analyzed by the explicit measure of preferences (i.e. manner-match or path-match) and the implicit measure of reaction time (in millisecond). It is reported that although participants on the whole prefer the path-match in their judgments, their reaction time differs significantly in a pattern that reflects the typological differences between Chinese and English in motion event encoding.</p>National Social Science Fund of China (NSSFC)15BYY063