{"pk":27885,"title":"Agent versus Non-Agent Motions Influence Language Production: Word Order and Perspective in a VOS language","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Is language production isolated from our experiences ofphysical events, or can physical motion affect the conceptualsaliency of the components of a to-be-described event, inways that affect its linguistic description? This studyexamined the influence of physical motion on theinterpretation and description of simple transitive events.More specifically, we investigated whether engagement innon-speech physical actions affects the relative location ofverbs versus arguments in sentence production, and therelative location and prominence of Agents, by testing nativespeakers of Truku, a language that allows flexibility in eachof these options and presents under-studied typologicalpatterns.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Embodiment"},{"word":"conceptual saliency"},{"word":"sentence production"},{"word":"motion"},{"word":"endangered languege"},{"word":"Verb-initial language"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57c482xx","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Manami","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sato","name_suffix":"","institution":"Okinawa International University","department":""},{"first_name":"Keiyu","middle_name":"","last_name":"Niikuni","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tohoku University","department":""},{"first_name":"Amy","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Schafer","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Hawaii","department":""},{"first_name":"Masatoshi","middle_name":"","last_name":"Koizumi","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tohoku University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27885/galley/17523/download/"}]}