Yohei Tomaru, Hiroshi Kamada, Yuta Tsukagoshi, Shogo Nakagawa, Kenta Tanaka, Ryoko Takeuchi, Yuki Mataki, Mio Kimura, Shumpei Miyakawa, Masashi Yamazaki
Determining the relationship between physical status and musculoskeletal injuries in children: a cohort study
Journal of rural medicine : JRM
psycholinguistic studies argued age acquisition aoa words marker concept learning showing semantic features concepts influence age labels learned however empirical evidence suggests semantic features imageability linguistic phenomena frequency adequately predict aoa present study takes developmental approach embodied cognition investigates effects sensorimotor experiences ease acquisition concept acquired bilinguals specifically investigated 1 whether sensorimotor experience explain aoa beyond frequency 2 whether patterns consistent across l1 chinese l2 english conducted sensorimotor rating measures chinese english 207 items chineseenglish bilingual adults requested evaluate extent experienced concepts employing six perceptual senses five effectors actions located various regions body meanwhile data aoa frequency collected present study showed sensorimotor experience closely linked aoas languages however correlation analysis revealed trend higher correlations aoas concepts l1 chinese relative l2 english present chineseenglish bilinguals importantly hierarchical regression analysis demonstrated controlling frequency sensorimotor experience explained additional variance l1 aoa however l2 sensorimotor experience explain variance l2 aoa sensorimotor experience explained share variance l1 aoa frequency accounted variance l2 aoa findings suggest concept acquisition consider grounding appropriate sensorimotor experience beyond linguistic phenomena like frequency