Uyghur-Chinese Adult Bilinguals' Construal of Voluntary Motion Events.

Front Psychol · 2022 · PMC9330025 · PMID 35911036

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Although the difference in Tight-Complex constructions between the two groups did not reach statistical significance for the ACROSS events, that Chinese monolinguals still used them slightly more frequently than the bilinguals is telling, because the bilinguals’ general “avoidance” of Tight-Complex constructions we observed in Uyghur seems to be at play in Chinese as well.

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