Abstract
ABSTRACT This study explores embodied cognition by examining the interplay between psycholinguistic features and motor processes in written language reproduction. We investigated whether previously observed effects (such as verb type and sentence structure influencing motor performance) in native languages also occur in non-native languages, shedding light on sensorimotor grounding across languages. A typing task assessed two phenomena: the manual action verb phenomenon and the negation phenomenon, both known to affect motor planning and performance. Experiment 1 involved native speakers, while Experiment 2 involved non-native speakers of German. We found interference effects (but no facilitation) for manual action verbs compared to non-action verbs in both speaker groups. Results for the negation paradigm were ambiguous and were influenced by syntactic operators. Our findings suggest similar sensorimotor grounding for native and foreign languages, contributing to research on embodied cognition in foreign language contexts. Methodological challenges and future research implications are discussed.
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