This study examines how properties of path and manner components of motion events are reflected in linguistic and nonlinguistic motion event apprehension in a path-focused language, Turkish. In two experiments, we investigated how path and manner differ in salience and ease of expression (EoE), how salience and EoE affect lexicalization, and how changes in path/manner salience and EoE are reflected on similarity judgments. In Experiment 1, participants rated motion events based on path and manner salience and EoE and expressed path and manner. Results indicated that manner was rated as more salient and path as easier to express. Path salience and EoE affected both types (i.e., number of different expressions) and the total number of paths and manners. Manner EoE but not salience affected only types and the total number of manners. In Experiment 2, participants rated the similarity of motion event pairs created based on the ratings in Experiment 1. We found that higher manner salience and EoE difference were associated with lower similarity ratings, particularly for manner EoE when path salience difference was low. Overall, these findings suggest that salience and EoE of path and manner are related to both linguistic and nonlinguistic aspects of motion event apprehension.