article_snippet: Athanasopoulos and colleagues were interested in a particular difference in how English and German speakers treat events.
article_snippet: German doesn't have this feature.
article_snippet: As a result, German speakers tend to specify the beginnings, middles, and ends of events, but English speakers often leave out the endpoints and focus in on the action.
article_snippet: Looking at the same scene, for example, German speakers might say, 'A man leaves the house and walks to the store,' whereas an English speaker would just say, 'A man is walking.'
highlights_snippet: Researchers studied particular difference between English and German .
  