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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"motion event"”.
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Motion Event Expression in Bilingual First Language Acquisition
… explores the implications of Talmy’s typology of motion expression (Talmy 1985, 2000a,b) for bilingual first language acquisition of English (satellite-framing) and French (verb-framing), addressing the following question: How does the expression of motion develop in simultaneous bilingual …
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The acquisition of motion event expressions by Uyghur-Chinese early successive bilinguals
… the implications of Talmy’s (1986; 2000a; 2000b) motion event typology and Slobin’s (1996; 2003; 2006) elaborations on it in the context of early successive bilingualism (ESB). Its main objective is to bring the study of ESB acquisition of motion expressions to bear on some of the central issues …
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Describing and Remembering Motion Events in British Sign Language
Motion events are ubiquitous in conversation, from describing a tiresome commute to recounting a burglary. These situations, where an entity changes location, consist of four main semantic components: Motion (the movement), Figure (the entity moving), Ground (the object or objects with respect to …
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Static and Dynamic Human Analysis in Images and Videos
… selection, human tracking in videos, human motion event classification in videos, and multimedia video retrievals. The key theme of this dissertation is the word search. We search for novel features for detection, recognition, tracking and motion events. We search for efficient ways to …
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Linguistic relativity: Loci and conditions of emergence
… system highlighting the familiar concept of event (in)transitivity) can indeed induce linguistic relativity effects. Regarding the loci, such effects were found in both higher-level decision processes (i.e., learning this novel morphological system biased non-verbal motion event …
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Application of Lyapunov Exponents to Strange Attractors and Intact & Damaged Ship Stability
… since the beginning of a seafaring culture. The event is a nonlinear, chaotic phenomenon that is highly sensitive to initial conditions and difficult to repeatedly predict. In extreme sea states most ships depend on an operating envelope, relying on the operator's detailed knowledge of headings …
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L2 Effect on Bilingual Spanish/English Encoding of Motion Events: Does Manner Salience Transfer?
… language (L2) on first language (L1) encoding of motion events. The domain of interest is MANNER and the goal is to investigate if the degree of <em>manner salience</em> can be restructured under the effect of a L2. Slobin (2004, 2006) proposes an expansion of Talmy’s (1985, 1991, 2000) binary …
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Impact of Robot Motions on User Interaction and Workload in Cooperative Assembly. Perceived Safety and Salience of Nearby Collaborative Robots in Human-Robot Working Cells
… the effects of robot behavior, especially motions, on the user in human-robot applications. When working in such an environment, the operator safety is paramount. Likewise, the user’s perceived safety is essential for well-being, minimizing fatigue effects and ultimately system …
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Les verbes de mouvement et l’expression du lieu en kirundi (bantou, JD62) : une étude linguistique basée sur un corpus
… This PhD thesis, written in French, is entitled ‘Motion Verbs and the Expression of Place in Kirundi (Bantu, JD62): A Corpus-based Linguistic Study’. The general goal of the PhD thesis is to provide, on the basis of the Kirundi text corpus developed by the BantUGent research centre, a systematic …