Voluntary motion events in Uyghur: A typological perspective

Tusun, Alimujiang; Hendriks, Henriëtte

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2019.05.003

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“…As mentioned in section “Motion Event Typology,” in verb-framed languages, simultaneously expressing Path and Manner would typically require more complex syntactic structures (e.g., subordination, adjuncts) that would increase online processing load (cf. Slobin, 2004 ; Özçalışkan, 2015 ; Tusun and Hendriks, 2019 ). And unless Manner is at issue, speakers would typically focus on Path only and hence UD1 utterances in Tight-Simple constructions.…”

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“…This variability/opaqueness in the input has been argued to render the acquisition of motion expressions particularly problematic for L1 (e.g., Engemann et al, 2012 ; Hickmann et al, 2018 ; Hendriks et al, 2021 ) and L2 (e.g., Hendriks et al, 2008 ; Hendriks and Hickmann, 2015 ; Engemann, 2016 ) learners alike. In contrast, the Uyghur–Chinese bilinguals deal with two highly systematic and hence transparent motion systems ( Ji et al, 2011a , b , c ; Tusun and Hendriks, 2019 , in press). It is possible, therefore, that the occurrence and longevity of CLI interacts with language-specific factors such that CLI may be more likely to occur, persist or even increase when the target language presents a variable/opaque system (cf.…”

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“…Several recent studies examining the typological status of Uyghur do show that it is a typical verb-framed language. For instance, Tusun and Hendriks (2019) found that, when asked to narrate animated cartoons that featured both human and animal agents moving along different path trajectories, Uyghur speakers typically encoded Path in the main verb and Manner (when expressed) in the converb. Uyghur speakers also made abundant use of case marking to provide additional Path information (Source, Goal).…”

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“…The implications of Talmy's seminal typology for spatial language use has been most extensively examined in relation to Slobin's thinking-for-speaking hypothesis (e.g., Slobin, 1996Slobin, , 2003Slobin, , 2004Slobin, , 2006Daller et al, 2011;Filipović, 2011;von Stutterheim et al, 2017von Stutterheim et al, , 2020Wang and Wei, 2021). And a consistent observation has been that speakers of satelliteframed languages typically produce semantically richer or denser descriptions (mentioning both Path and Manner) while speakers of verb-framed languages tend to produce semantically less rich utterances, focusing primarily on Path (e.g., Slobin, 2004;Özçalışkan, 2015;Hickmann et al, 2018;Tusun and Hendriks, 2019;Bunger et al, 2021;Hendriks et al, 2021). The thinking-for-speaking hypothesis postulates that speakers of typologically distinct languages may not necessarily perceive or conceptualize a given event differently.…”

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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Tusun

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The study examined the implications of Talmy motion event typology and Slobin’s thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the context of Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingualism. Uyghur and Chinese represent genetically distant languages (Turkic vs. Sino-Tibetan) that nonetheless share important framing properties in the motion domain, i.e., verb-framing. This study thus aimed to establish how this structural overlap would inform bilingual speakers’ construal of motion events. Additionally, it sought to offer an “end state” perspective to a previous study on Uyghur–Chinese child bilinguals and to shed light on issues around the longevity of crosslinguistic influence. Thirty adult Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilinguals were invited to describe a set of voluntary motion events (e.g., “a man runs across the road”). Their verbalizations, alongside those from 24 monolingual Uyghur and 12 monolingual Chinese speakers were systematically analyzed with regard to the kind of linguistic devices used to encode key components of motion (main verb vs. other devices), the frequency with which the components are expressed together (Manner + Path) or separately (Path or Manner) and how they are syntactically packaged. The findings show that the bilinguals’ thinking-for-speaking patterns are largely language-specific, with little crosslinguistic influence. A comparison of our findings with previous studies on Uyghur-Chinese child bilinguals revealed no developmental change either in the analyzed aspects of motion descriptions or in patterns of crosslinguistic influence. As such, the findings lend support to accounts that propose crosslinguistic influence to be a developmental phenomenon.

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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Tusun

2022

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“…For example, results reported in the literature for Turkic languages (V-language) differ from those for French, showing that such languages present a more typically verb-framed pattern and less overall variation of expression than French (cf. Hickmann et al, 2009b for French; Allen et al, 2007, and Özçalişkan & Slobin, 1999 for Turkish; Tusun, 2018 for Uyghur). Second, to further understand the influence of typology on motion expression, it is necessary to look at a variety of motion events, including not only voluntary motion, but also caused motion and placement events.…”

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Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French

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Pastorino-Campos

2021

J. Child Lang.

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Much research has focused on the expression of voluntary motion (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2000). The present study contributes to this body of research by comparing how children (three to ten years) and adults narrated short, animated cartoons in English and German (satellite-framed languages) vs. French (verb-framed). The cartoons showed agents displacing themselves in variable Manners along different Paths (Path saliency and variance were specifically manipulated in four item types). Results show an increase with age across languages in how much information participants expressed. However, at all ages, more motion information was encoded in English and German than in French. Furthermore, language-specific features impacted the content and its organization within utterances in discourse, showing more variation within and across Path types in French than in the satellite-framed languages, resulting in later achievement of adult-like descriptions in this language. The discussion highlights the joint impact of cognitive and typological features on language development.

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Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

Tusun

2023

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Talmy’s motion event typology has served as a fruitful framework for exploring bilingual cognition and language use. The present study extends this line of research to the bilingualism situation of an underrepresented Turkic language, i.e., Modern Uyghur, and Mandarin Chinese, and it does so by focusing on a relatively understudied type of motion, i.e., caused motion. The two languages are genetically and typologically distinct, and yet they share verb-framing as an important lexicalization pattern in encoding motion. This study, therefore, investigated whether and to what extent this structural overlap contributes to crosslinguistic influence in Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion. Thirty Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals’ verbalizations were analyzed with respect to the number of semantic components expressed and the way they were syntactically packaged. Results were compared with relevant monolingual data, which showed that Uyghur–Chinese adult bilinguals displayed a strong L1 to L2 influence in syntactic packaging by overusing the verb-framed strategy in Mandarin Chinese. However, further comparisons with previous research on Uyghur–Chinese child and adult bilinguals’ motion construal revealed that, while structural overlap is a key factor motivating crosslinguistic influence, a coherent explanation of this phenomenon must consider more general principles of bilingual language processing and use.

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Voluntary motion events in Uyghur: A typological perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French

Uyghur–Chinese early successive adult bilinguals’ construal of caused motion events

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