talmy’s theory of motion event frames and slobin’s theory of “thinking for speaking”
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Talmy’s theory of motion event frames and Slobin’s theory of “thinking for speaking”. Language is a system with two subsystems inside:. Open or lexical class. Any category of linguistic forms that are large in number and easy to augment . Roots of nouns, verbs, adjectives. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Talmy’s theory of motion event frames
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Slobin’s theory of “thinking for speaking”
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Language is a system with two subsystems inside:
Open systemLEXICAL
Closed systemGRAMMATICAL
Nonconstrained Constrained
Conceptual content Conceptual structure
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Open or lexical class
Any category of linguistic forms that are large in number and easy to augment
. Roots of nouns, verbs, adjectives.
. Collocations (lexical complexes) spill the beans
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Closed or grammatical classOvert
(Phonologically substantive)
Abstract/implicit
bound: inflections, derivations, cliticsfree: determiners, adpositions, conjuctions, particlessuprasegmental: intonation, stress
Word orderGrammatical categories(N, V, A, NP, VP)Grammatical relations(subject, object)Grammatical Complexes(synt/gramm structure)
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What concepts are generallyexpressed with closed-class items?
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Talmy’s lexicalization patterns
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Figure vs. Ground
What color are the birds? The optical illusion appears because the distinction between figure and groundisn’t clear.
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Talmy’s (1991, 2000) Lexicalization patterns and motion events
Meaning components associated with surface components in different languages packaging strategies.
Motion events: “containing movement or the maintenance of a stationary location”.
Six basic semantic elements or components: Central or ‘internal components’: Figure, Ground, Path,
Motion Associated or ‘external co-event components’: Manner,
Cause
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Examples
(1) The pencil rolled off the tableFigure Motion Path
GroundManner
(2) The pencil blew off the tableFigure Motion Path
GroundCause
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Motion—manner—path may be encoded in various ways
Motion+path (exit, enter, climb)Motion+manner (skip, slide, scurry)
English:The squirrel scurried [along the wall]. Spanish: The squirrel went-along the wall [scurrying].
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What’s encoded in the following sentences?
The woman exited the house (path, motion). The woman ran out of the house (path, manner). The bear climbed the tree (path, manner). The batter slid into first base (path, manner). She went home (path, motion). He tucked his shirt into his jeans (path, manner).
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Lexicalisation patterns and typology
SATELLITE-framed languages (Germanic, Slavic, Finno-Ugric) Conflation of ‘Motion’ and ‘Manner’ ‘Path’ in satellite
English (3) The boy ran out
VERB-framed languages (Romance, Semitic, Turkic, Basque, Japanese, Korean) Conflation of ‘Motion’ and ‘Path’ ‘Manner’ in separate element
Spanish (4) El niño salió corriendo‘the boy exited running’
Basque (5) Umea korrika irten zen‘the boy running exited’
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What kind of language is French?
Il est entré dans la pièce en courant. (He entered into the room running.)
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A few in-class experiments…
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Little empirical test 1
On a piece of paper, write down as many motion verbs as possible. You have ONE minute.
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Little empirical test 2 Describe what happens in these pictures (boy, owl)
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Little empirical test 3 Describe what happens in these pictures
(boy, deer, dog)
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Slobin’s notion of “thinking for speaking”
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Verbs and Manner description Satellite-framed: ENGLISH
Buck, bump, buzz, carry, chase, climb, come, crawl, creep, depart, drop, dump, escape, fall, float, fly, follow, get, go, head, hide, hop, jump, know, land, leave, limp, make-fall, move, plummet, pop, push, race, rush, run, slip, splash, splat, sneak, swim, swoop, take, throw, tip, tumble, walk, wander
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Manner: In verb-framed languages:
Manner is only expressed in the motion event if it is very important for the narrative, otherwise it is left out (McNeill 2000, Slobin 1997)
Manner is lexicalised in a manner verb or usually in a separate expression Spanish: -adverbial expressions (adverbs, gerundives)
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Ground elaboration:
Journeys: How many complements does the verb take?
‘Complex path’ or ‘journey’: an extended path that includes milestones or subgoals, situated in a medium. Satellite-framed languages:
English used this pattern very frequently.
(11) He starts running and he tips him off over a cliff into the water.
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Universal Concepts TheoriesUniversal concepts
PATH MANNER CONTAINMENT CAUSALITY
Language
maps onto concepts
“The central problem is how do children, from an initially equivalent base, end up controlling often very differently structured languages.”
Bowerman & Levinson (2001)