IVM：儿童用汉语和英语对因果事件的多模态表达（英文版）

Causal events, events that consist of cause and result, are commonly experienced in people’s life, and different languages have different structures available to express cause and result. Despite contrasting features from one language to another, languages show similar patterns when it comes to encoding the cause and result in a causal event. Languages that use the same syntactic structures are regarded as typologically the same in this regard. For instance, in a language like English, cause