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    "pk": 26863,
    "title": "Does Mandarin Spatial Metaphor for Time Influence Chinese Deaf Signers’\nSpatio-Temporal Reasoning?",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "In Mandarin Chinese, the space-time word “前/qian” is\nused to express both the spatial concept of front/forward\nand the temporal concept of early/before (e.g., “前天/qian-\ntian”, literally front day, meaning the day before yesterday).\nThis is consistent with the fact that Mandarin speakers can\ngesture to the front of the body to refer to a past event, and\nmore generally can have past-in-front space-time mappings.\nIn Chinese Sign Languages, however, the spatial\nfront/forward and the temporal early/before are signed\ndifferently as the sign for spatial front is only used for the\nspatial concept of forward, and the sign for before/past is\ndirected to the back. In this study we investigate whether\nthe Mandarin sagittal spatial metaphors for time influence\nChinese deaf signers’ spatio-temporal reasoning. In two\nexperiments, we found that Chinese deaf signers with\nhigher Mandarin proficiency were more likely to interpret\nthe Mandarin word “前/qian” as the temporal conception of\npast (Study 1), and to perform past-in-front space-time\nmappings (Study 2) as opposed to signers with lower\nMandarin proficiency. The findings of the study not only\nprovide within-culture evidence for the influence of\nlanguage on thought, but also demonstrate that even cross-\nmodal space-time metaphors can have an impact on deaf-\nsigners’ spatio-temporal reasoning.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "space and time; Chinese deaf signers; language\nand thought; conceptual metaphor"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1qq1f3rp",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Yan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Gu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Yeqiu",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Zheng",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Marc",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Swerts",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Tilburg University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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