Abstract
We investigated the time course of sentence formulation in Tagalog, a verb-initial language in which the verb obligatorily agrees with one of its arguments. Eye-tracked participants described pictures of transitive events. Fixations to the two characters in the events were compared across sentences differing in agreement marking and post-verbal word order. Fixation patterns show evidence for two temporally dissociated phases in Tagalog sentence production. The first, driven by verb agreement, involves early linking of concepts to syntactic functions; the second, driven by word order, involves incremental lexical encoding of these concepts. These results suggest that even the earliest stages of sentence formulation may be guided by a language's grammatical structure.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics |
Subtitle of host publication | Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
Editors | Marcus Knauff, Natalie Sabanz, Michael Pauen, Ipke Wachsmuth |
Place of Publication | Austin, TX |
Publisher | Cognitive Science Society |
Pages | 1265-1270 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 978-0-9768318-9-1 |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - Berlin, Germany Duration: 31 Jul 2013 → 3 Aug 2013 |
Conference
Conference | 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society |
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Country/Territory | Germany |
City | Berlin |
Period | 31/07/13 → 3/08/13 |
Keywords
- sentence planning
- typology
- eye-tracking