Encoding Motion Events During Language Production: Effects of Audience Design and Conceptual Salience.

We investigate the extent to which pragmatic versus conceptual factors can affect a speaker's decision to mention or omit different components of an event. In the two experiments, we demonstrate the special role of pragmatic factors related to audience design in speakers' decisions to mention conceptually "peripheral" event components, such as sources (i.e.

Cognitive and pragmatic factors in language production: Evidence from source-goal motion events.

In order to talk about an event they see in the world, speakers have to build a conceptual representation of that event and generate a message that selects the pragmatically appropriate (e.g., informative) parts of that event that they want to talk about.

The Relationship between Syntactic Satiation and Syntactic Priming: A First Look.

Syntactic satiation is the phenomenon where some sentences that initially seem ungrammatical appear more acceptable after repeated exposures (Snyder, 2000). We investigated satiation by manipulating two factors known to affect syntactic priming, a phenomenon where recent exposure to a grammatical structure facilitates subsequent processing of that structure (Bock, 1986). Specifically, we manipulated (i) (number of sentences between primes and targets) and (ii) (type of phrase repeated across primes and targets).