Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 0 Introduction -- Part I: State of the art -- 1 Language and cognition -- 2 Linguistic determinism and "thinking for speaking" -- 3 The relation between language and cognition in different language acquisition theories -- 4 Selected aspects of spatial cognition in children -- 5 Verbalizations of motion events -- 6 General assumptions -- Part II: Experimental study on the expression of motion events in French and German -- 7 Methodology -- 8 Specific hypotheses -- 9 Results: Voluntary Motion -- 10 Results: Caused Motion -- Part III: Discussion -- 11 Discussion of the results and further research directions -- Appendix -- A Methodology -- B Results: Voluntary motion -- C Results: Caused motion -- References -- Subject index -- Author index