61 Citations
What are they good for? A constructionist account of counterfactuals in ordinary Chinese
- Psychology
- 2017
Counterfactuals and the underlying processing mechanism
- Psychology
- 2017
: Counterfactuals are contrary-to-fact statements which are widely used in daily life to convey thoughts about what might have been. Previous studies have revealed that, different from fact-based…
On the linguistic shaping of thought: Another response to Alfred Bloom
- Linguistics
- 1992
Bloom (1981, 1984) linked the existence of specific grammatical constructions – for example, the counterfactual conditional in English – to the development of a labeled cognitive schema specific to…
Reasoning Counterfactually in Chinese: Picking up the Pieces
- Psychology
- 2005
We review the controversy concerning whether the lack of a clear counterfactual marker in Chinese results in a deficiency in counterfactual reasoning (Au, 1983, 1984; Bloom, 1981, 1984; Liu, 1985).…
Counterfactually in Chinese : Picking up the Pieces
- Psychology
- 2005
We review the controversy concerning whether the lack of a clear counterfactual marker in Chinese results in a deficiency in counterfactual reasoning (Au, 1983, 1984; Bloom, 1981, 1984; Liu, 1985).…
What If Chinese Had Linguistic Markers for Counterfactual Conditionals? Language and Thought Revisited
- Linguistics
- 2006
What if Chinese had Linguistic Markers for Counterfactual Conditionals? Language and Thought Revisited Gary Feng (garyfeng@duke.edu) Department of Psychology: Social and Health Sciences, Box 90085,…
Chinese and counterfactual reasoning
- PhilosophyThe Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics
- 2019
This paper begins with a scrutiny of the notion SUBJUNCTIVE CONDITIONAL together with an introduction to the distinction of EXTRINSIC and INTRINSIC FACTORS affecting the nature of logical operators.…
Merced Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Title What If Chinese Had Linguistic Markers for Counterfactual Conditionals ? Language and Thought Revisited Permalink
- Linguistics
- 2006
This study critically examines the widely held belief that the Chinese language provides no consistent linguistic forms for expressing counterfactual ideas (Bloom, 1981). In Study 1, native speakers…
Language and counterfactual reasoning in Chinese, English and ChineseL1-EnglishL2 reasoners
- EducationInternational Journal of Bilingualism
- 2021
Aims: No recent studies have investigated language effects on counterfactual reasoning in bilinguals. This paper investigates the impact of bilinguals’ native language and language of testing on…
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