Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.0 Introduction 1
1.1 Research Background 4
1.2 Significance of the Present Study 14
1.3 Layout 15
Chapter 2 Current Research into MST 17
2.0 Introduction 17
2.1 Evidence for Semantic Transfer 17
2.2 Insights Relevant to MST 52
2.3 Summary 68
Chapter 3 A New Conception of"Conceptualization" 69
3.0 Introduction 69
3.1 The Psycholinguistic Conception of"Conceptualization" 69
3.2 The Cognitivistic Conception of"Conceptualization" 78
3.3 Toward a New Conception of"Conceptualization" 86
3.4 The New Conception of"Conceptualization"Proposed 199
3.5 Summary 206
Chapter 4 A Tentative Conception of MST 208
4.0 Introduction 208
4.1 Language-Specificity of Conceptualization 208
4.2 The Conception of MST 245
4.3 The Explanatory Power of the Tentative MST 252
4.4 Summary 261
Chapter 5 Empirical Validation 262
5.0 Introduction 262
5.1 Predictions Based on the Tentative Conception of MST 262
5.2 Current Support for the Predictions 263
5.3 Experiments 268
5.4 General Discussion 294
5.5 Summary 295
Chapter 6 Conclusions 296
6.0 General Summary 296
6.1 Implications 298
6.2 Limitations 301
Appendix 303
Sentence-Cloze Items for Experiment 1 303
Translation-Induced Sentence Cloze Items for Experiment 2 306
Translation-Induced Sentence Cloze Items for Experiment 3 309
References 312