A fundamental aspect of human cognition is the ability to parse our constantly unfolding experience into meaningful representations of dynamic events and to communicate about these events with others. How do we communicate about events we have experienced? Influential theories of language production assume that the formulation and articulation of a linguistic message is preceded by preverbal apprehension that captures core aspects of the event. Yet the nature of these preverbal event representations and the way they are mapped onto language are currently not well understood. Here, we review recent evidence on the link between event conceptualization and language, focusing on two core aspects of event representation: event roles and event boundaries. Empirical evidence in both domains shows that the cognitive representation of events aligns with the way these aspects of events are encoded in language, providing support for the presence of deep homologies between linguistic and cognitive event structure.

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从事件表征到语言意义

人类认知的一个基本方面是能够将我们不断展开的经验解析为动态事件的有意义的表示，并与他人就这些事件进行交流。我们如何交流我们所经历的事件？有影响力的语言产生理论假设语言信息的形成和表达之前有捕捉事件核心方面的语前理解。然而，这些词前事件表征的性质以及它们映射到语言的方式目前还不是很清楚。在这里，我们回顾了关于事件概念化和语言之间联系的最新证据，重点关注事件表示的两个核心方面：事件角色和事件边界。