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Gleitman, Lila R.; January, David; Nappa, Rebecca; Trueswell, John C. – Journal of Memory and Language, 2007
Two experiments are reported that examine how manipulations of visual attention affect speakers' linguistic choices regarding word order, verb use and syntactic structure when describing simple pictured scenes. Experiment 1 presented participants with scenes designed to elicit the use of a perspective predicate ("The man chases the dog/The dog…
Descriptors: Verbs, Personality, Nouns, Attention

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