<DIV>Sotaro Kita</DIV>
<DIV>Social Sciences Complex<BR>8 Woodland Road<BR>Clifton<BR>Bristol<BR>BS8 1TN</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear listmembers and Dr. Kita,</DIV>
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<DIV>The mentioned article appeared at <A href="http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2003/256">http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2003/256</A></DIV>
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<DIV>I think that Dr. Kita was misinformed. There is a word (verb) in Turkish that describes the motion mentioned here (that is swinging.)</DIV>
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<DIV>The root of the word to describe this motion is "sal-." Sal-la-mak, sal-la-n-mak, sal-in-cak, sal-in-mak, sal-la-n-dir-mak, sal-kim.</DIV>
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<DIV>Indeed there is even a syllabic sign dedicated to this verb in Kokturk script used as early as 732 BC (2735 BP) which is used to describe harvesting/swinging machete (orak). Moreover there is always ways to make noun verbs in Turkish, such as oraklamak (ormak) , capalamak, yabalamak, etc. In conclusion if there is a noun we'll always have a verb. </DIV>
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<DIV>I checked my information with Azeri, Uzbek, Kazakh speakers as well (in addition to my native tongue Turkish.)</DIV>
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<DIV>A small reminder: same verb used also to describe similar motions (hanging grapes in a vineyard, metaphorically a paricular way of walking etc)</DIV>
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<DIV>All the best,</DIV>
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<DIV>Onur Senarslan, Indiana University</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>MJ Hardman <hardman@UFL.EDU></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">And, of course, the study is a 'deficit' study -- English comes out on top!<BR>Not difference, but hierarchy!<BR><BR>Deficit grammars are prohibited in my classroom.<BR><BR>Dr. MJ Hardman<BR>website: http://grove.ufl.edu/~hardman/<BR><BR><BR>On 09/12/2003 12:18 PM, "Phil CashCash" <CASHCASH@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU>wrote:<BR><BR>> Language influences the way you think<BR>> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_818420.html<BR>><BR>> Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently<BR>> but think about it differently too, according to a new study.<BR>><BR>> Researchers used a cartoon featuring black and white cat Sylvester to<BR>> study how language was reflected in the gestures people made.<BR>><BR>> Dr Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol's Department of Experimental<BR>> Psychology, showed the cartoon to a group of native En
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Japanese<BR>> and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described<BR>> the action they had seen.<BR>><BR>> He found speakers of the three different languages used different<BR>> gestures to depict the same event, which appeared to reflect the way<BR>> the structure of their languages expressed that event.<BR>><BR>> For example, when describing a scene where Sylvester swings on a rope,<BR>> the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory and the<BR>> Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing<BR>> the motion but not the arc.<BR>><BR>> Dr Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no verb that<BR>> corresponds to the English intransitive verb 'to swing'.<BR>><BR>> While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily<BR>> express the change of location and the arc-shaped trajectory, Japanese<BR>> and Turkish speakers cannot as easily
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the concept of movement<BR>> with an arc trajectory so they use the straight gesture.<BR>><BR>> Dr Kita said: "My research suggests that speakers of different languages<BR>> generate different spatial images of the same event in a way that<BR>> matches the expressive possibilities of their particular language.<BR>><BR>> "In other words, language influences spatial thinking at the moment of<BR>> speaking."<BR>><BR>> Story filed: 14:06 Friday 12th September 2003<BR>></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Onur Senarslan <br>He Who Brought Back the Distant One. <br>º <br>º º <br>º<')}}}><<º)}}}><<')}}}><'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸<')}}}><<º)}}}<')}}} ><((((º> ><(((('> ><((((º> '·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.><(((('> ><(((('> ><((((º> ><((((º> '·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸¸.·´¯'·.¸<p><hr SIZE=1>
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