Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns

Lewandowski, Wojciech; Mateu, Jоan

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2020.102956

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“…For UP events, children unanimously used the Manner verb pa2 'to climb', and interestingly, they used its equivalent yamašmaq in their Uyghur descriptions. Lewandowski and Mateu (2020) hold that such Manner verbs display a certain degree of Path salience due to encyclopaedic and contextual knowledge, and indeed, previous L1 research has shown that young children capitalise on such structures that enable them to express more information (Manner & Path) with less complex structures (e.g., Hickmann et al, 2009;Hendriks et al, 2022;Özçalışkan & Slobin, 1999;Özyürek & Özçalışkan, 2000). The younger bilinguals' frequent use of Manner verbs may thus reflect this same universal tendency.…”

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Tusun

2023

Bilingualism

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This study explores the implications of Talmy's (2000) motion event typology and its subsequent articulations in relation to Slobin's (1996, 2006) thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the early successive bilingual acquisition of Uyghur (verb-framed) and Mandarin Chinese (equipollently-framed). Specifically, it examines how 4-, 6-, 8- and 10-year-old bilingual children acquire motion expressions in their L1 and L2 respectively, and how cross-linguistic influence shapes their L2 acquisition process. Results show that, in their L1 Uyghur, bilinguals follow general developmental trajectories observed for children acquiring verb-framed languages. While sensitive to the equipollent Chinese system from early on, due to L1 and other factors, bilinguals fully converge on the Chinese pattern only at age 10, a feat in place in monolinguals from age 3. Our findings highlight that bilingual children do eventually come to develop language-specific thinking-for-speaking patterns in their L2, but they traverse a distinct developmental path.

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Tusun

2023

Bilingualism

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“…Accordingly, if we base our classification in terms of the specific linguistic strategies (manner verb + path satellite vs. manner verb + path verb) speakers employ and the types of motion information the verb conveys as well as the relative frequency of separated expressions in speech, then we can classify Chinese as belonging to a different language type (i.e., E‐language). This then raises the question about the applicability of using a binary (S‐ vs. V‐languages) or a tertiary split (S‐ vs. V‐ vs. E‐languages) in explaining patterns of habitual expression by native speakers of the world's languages (Croft, Barðdal, Hollmann, Sotirova, & Taoka, 2010; Lewandowski & Mateu, 2020 for related discussions). As suggested by Beavers, Levin, and Tham (2010), speakers of a language of one type (e.g., S‐language) use expressions that are more typical of another language type (e.g., V‐language).…”

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“…As such, future work that examines cross‐linguistic similarities and differences in co‐speech and silent gestures across a broader set of languages over developmental time can provide further insight into the origins of cross‐linguistic variability (or the lack thereof) in gesture when speaking and when not speaking. Moreover, in this study, we focus only on one language as representing a language type (e.g., English for S‐language), but there are studies that suggest that expression of motion in speech shows considerable variability within a typological group in terms of their packaging strategies (i.e., intratypological variation; e.g., Lewandowski & Mateou, 2020; Lewandowski & Özçalışkan, 2021; also see Goschler & Stefanowitsch, 2013 for a recent review) and that languages can be grouped along a continuum with different levels of path or manner salience (Ibarretxe‐Antunano, 2009; Slobin, 2004). Most of the earlier work also focused on either predicate‐final or predicate‐middle languages, leaving patterns of expression in predicate‐initial languages largely unexamined.…”

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When Gestures Do or Do Not Follow Language‐Specific Patterns of Motion Expression in Speech: Evidence from Chinese, English and Turkish

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Speakers of different languages (e.g., English vs. Turkish) show a binary split in how they package and order components of a motion event in speech and co‐speech gesture but not in silent gesture. In this study, we focused on Mandarin Chinese, a language that does not follow the binary split in its expression of motion in speech, and asked whether adult Chinese speakers would follow the language‐specific speech patterns in co‐speech but not silent gesture, thus showing a pattern akin to Turkish and English adult speakers in their description of animated motion events. Our results provided evidence for this pattern, with Chinese—as well as English and Turkish—speakers following language‐specific patterns in speech and co‐speech gesture but not in silent gesture. Our results provide support for the “thinking‐for‐speaking” account, namely that language influences thought only during online, but not offline, production of speech.

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“…For instance, although both German and Polish are S-languages, German speakers convey more detailed Manner information in the main verb and use a larger variety of Manner verbs than Polish speakers (Lewandowski & Mateu, 2016; Lewandowski & Özçalışkan, 2021). Moreover, there is a discernible increase in research on intra-linguistic variation (i.e., variation within particular languages) (e.g., Aske, 1989; Croft et al, 2010; Feist & Duffy, 2020; Hendriks & Hickmann, 2015; Lewandowski & Mateu, 2020; Martínez-Vázquez, 2015; Özçalışkan, 2005; Slobin & Hoiting, 1994). The debate on intra-linguistic variation dates back to Aske’s (1989) discussion of path phrases constraint in Spanish as a typical V-language.…”

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Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective

Chen

2023

Lang. cogn.

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Languages differ considerably in the way they encode motion. Previous research on motion encoding has paid much attention to inter-typological variation (i.e., variation between language types) and intra-typological variation (i.e., variation within language types), but less focus on intra-linguistic variation (i.e., variation within particular languages). To fill this niche, the current study compares actual motion and metaphorical motion in Standard Mandarin Chinese with a corpus-based approach. We ask whether the typological properties in actual motion extend to metaphorical motion. The results indicate that the answer is negative. The typological properties including lexicalization patterns and the distribution of semantic components vary by both event type (actual motion vs. metaphorical motion) and genre (fiction vs. non-fiction) within Chinese. The intra-linguistic variation can be explained by additional factors – the pragmatic context and the structural property of Chinese. These findings support a constructional proposal of the motion event typology, which is a more nuanced typology that expands the binary distinction between V-languages and S-languages. In this proposal, the consideration of the scalar dimension enables more explicit descriptions of variation within languages (shift left- or rightward on the scale) and more accurate explanations for these phenomena.

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Motion events again: Delimiting constructional patterns

Cited by 13 publications

References 31 publications

Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingual children's acquisition of voluntary motion expressions

When Gestures Do or Do Not Follow Language‐Specific Patterns of Motion Expression in Speech: Evidence from Chinese, English and Turkish

Variable motion encoding within Chinese: a usage-based perspective

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