Re: Natural Order of Events

The way the experiment worked was as follows:��(1) Subjects looked at a screen
and saw an action performed.��(2) Subjects were told then to mimic it to
the experimenter,�who was sitting beside them.�� From what I saw, the
room they were was simply a standard�office with a computer, a desk, and some
chairs. So they�weren't able to, say, point to an object (and I believe the
screen�was blank while they were gesturing, too, so they couldn't�point to
the objects on the
screen).��-David�*******************************************************************�"A
male love inevivi i'ala'i oku i ue pokulu'ume o heki a."�"No eternal reward
will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."��-Jim
Morrison��http://dedalvs.conlang.org/��On Jan 26, 2009, at 1∞32 AM,
Andreas Johansson wrote:��> A thought that occured to me - where the girls,
pails, etc, refered�> to physically present? If so, they might have been
indicated first�> simply because its easier to point at someone or something
than to�> mime an action, and people tend to do the easy parts of a task
first�> before grappling with the hard ones.�>�> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at
8:41 AM, David J. Peterson�> <dedalvs@...> wrote:�>> I know that this
thread died quite awhile ago, and this message�>> itself was posted more than
two months ago, but, honestly, it's�>> been bothering me ever since, and I've
been trying to figure out�>> why. I think I may know now (I've quoted the
whole thing below�>> my signature. To bring everyone up to speed, this was
the study�>> that showed that English speakers gestured sentences in SOV�>>
order). Dirk wrote:�>�> <snip>�> --�> Andreas Johansson�>�> Why
can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?�