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  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

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  • Syntactic templates enable systematic event description.
  • Languages exhibit variability in framing motion events, influencing speaker conceptualization.
  • Existing research suggests event properties explain within-language framing variability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To measure consistency in motion event encoding in Spanish and Swedish.
  • To test the event-properties account of within-language variability.
  • To investigate the role of speaker biases versus event properties in linguistic framing.

Main Methods:

  • Spanish and Swedish speakers (N=84) described 32 caused motion events.
  • Analysis focused on syntactic framing and manner of motion expression.
  • Statistical methods quantified variability and attributed it to event properties or speaker differences.

Main Results:

  • Swedish descriptions were significantly more consistent than Spanish descriptions.
  • Swedish speakers predominantly used a single syntactic frame, consistently encoding manner.
  • Spanish descriptions showed high variability in syntactic framing and manner expression, driven by speaker biases, not event properties.

Conclusions:

  • Linguistic event schema consistency varies significantly across languages.
  • Swedish biases speakers toward a specific schema more than Spanish.
  • Findings impact event framing typology, language-thought relations, and speech planning.