The present study compares adults, five-and ten-year-old speakers of Czech (a satellite-
framed language) and French (a verb-framed language) during the task of describing short …

Recent research shows that adult speakers of verb-vs. satellite-framed languages (Talmy,
2000) express motion events in language-specific ways in speech (Slobin 1996, 2004) and …

Recent research shows that adult speakers of verb-vs. satellite-framed languages (Talmy,
2000) express motion events in language-specific ways in speech (Slobin 1996, 2004) and …

This chapter contributes to the present discussion about the expression of motion in French
by presenting a psycholinguistic study that focuses on how information about motion is …

Caused motion events (eg a boy pulls a box into a room) are basic events where an Agent
(the boy) performs an Action (pulling) that causes a Figure (box) to move in a spatial Path …

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 …

Theoretical claims about typologically constrained differences in how speakers habitually
describe physical motion are tested through three cross-linguistic developmental studies …

Recent studies in language acquisition have paid much attention to linguistic diversity and
have begun to show that language properties may have an impact on how children construct …

Languages differ systematically in the way they express spatial motion, rendering it as a
highly relevant domain to examine effects of language on nonverbal representation of …

Previous research on motion expression indicates that typological properties influence how
speakers select and express information in discourse (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2000). The …