Is Embodied Cognition Bilingual?
- Accumulating behavioral and neurophysiological evidence supports the idea of language being grounded in sensorimotor processes, with indications of a functional role of motor, sensory and emotional systems in processing both concrete and abstract linguistic concepts. However, most of the available studies focused on native language speakers (L1), with only a limited number of investigations testing embodied language processing in the case of a second language (L2). In this paper we review the available evidence on embodied effects in L2 and discuss their possible integration into existing models of linguistic processing in L1 and L2. Finally, we discuss possible avenues for future research towards an integrated model of L1 and L2 sensorimotor and emotional grounding.
| Author details: | Katharina KühneORCiD, Claudia GianelliORCiD |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00108 |
| ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30787892 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Frontiers in psychology |
| Subtitle (English): | current evidence and perspectives of the embodied cognition approach to bilingual language processing |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Research Foundation |
| Place of publishing: | Lausanne |
| Publication type: | Review |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2019/02/06 |
| Publication year: | 2019 |
| Release date: | 2021/04/09 |
| Tag: | embodied language; grounding; native language; second language; sensorimotor |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Number of pages: | 8 |
| Funding institution: | DAAD-MIUR Joint Mobility grant [57266099] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Gold Open-Access |
| DOAJ gelistet | |
| License (German): |  CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
