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  • Cognitive Science
  • Linguistics
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Visual attention is influenced by language production.
  • Co-speech gestures may also guide attention during message preparation.
  • Turkish, a verb-framed language, expresses motion path within the verb and uses path gestures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if language-specific co-speech gestures guide speakers' visual attention during message preparation.
  • To examine the link between visual attention and multimodal event descriptions in Turkish speakers.
  • To determine how language-specific event encoding in speech and gesture influences visual attention.

Main Methods:

  • Recorded eye movements of Turkish-speaking adults viewing motion events.
  • Compared attention during non-linguistic (viewing-only) and linguistic (viewing-before-describing) tasks.
  • Analyzed attention allocation to path versus manner based on verb encoding and gesture use.

Main Results:

  • Relative attention to path over manner increased in the linguistic task compared to the non-linguistic task.
  • Attention to path was higher when path was encoded in the main verb and when path gestures were used.
  • Speakers' visual attention is guided by language-specific event encoding in both speech and gesture.

Conclusions:

  • Language-specific event encoding in speech and gesture guides speakers' visual attention.
  • Supports models integrating speech and gesture at the conceptualization level of language production.
  • Suggests a connection between visual attention and both spoken language (eye-mouth) and co-speech gestures (eye-hand).