Learning word order at birth: A NIRS study [PDF]
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 In language, the relative order of words in sentences carries important grammatical functions. However, the developmental origins and the neural correlates of the ability to track word order are to date poorly understood.
Silvia Benavides-Varela, Judit Gervain
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Native Word Order Processing Is Not Uniform: An ERP Study of Verb-Second Word Order [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Studies of native syntactic processing often target phrase structure violations that do not occur in natural production. In contrast, this study examines how variation in basic word order is processed, looking specifically at structures traditionally ...
Susan Sayehli +3 more
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Innovation of Word Order Harmony Across Development [PDF]
Open Mind, 2021 The tendency for languages to use harmonic word order patterns—orders that place heads in a consistent position with respect to modifiers or other dependents—has been noted since the 1960s. As with many other statistical typological tendencies, there has
Jennifer Culbertson, Elissa L. Newport
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Word order and information structure in Romeyka [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionThis study examines the organization of information structure in Romeyka, the only surviving variety of Asia Minor Greek still spoken in present-day Anatolia, Turkey.
Nicolaos Neocleous, Ioanna Sitaridou
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A word order typology of adnominal person [PDF]
Linguistic TypologyThis paper investigates cross-linguistic variation in the expression of adnominal person (persn; cf. English “we linguists”) based on a survey of 114 languages, focusing on word order.
Höhn Georg F.K.
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A new perspective on word order preferences: The availability of a lexicon triggers the use of SVO word order [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Word orders are not distributed equally: SOV and SVO are the most prevalent among the world’s languages. While there is a consensus that SOV might be the ‘default’ order in human languages, the factors that trigger the preference for SVO are still a ...
Hanna eMarno +5 more
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Negative Transfer Effects on L2 Word Order Processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Does first language (L1) word order affect the processing of non-canonical but grammatical syntactic structures in second language (L2) comprehension? In the present study, we test whether L1-Spanish speakers of L2-Basque process subject–verb–object (SVO)
Kepa Erdocia, Itziar Laka
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Crosslinguistic word order variation reflects evolutionary pressures of dependency and information locality. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Hahn M, Xu Y.
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Information Structure and Word Order Canonicity in the Comprehension of Spanish Texts: An Eye-Tracking Study. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2021 Gattei CA, París LA, Shalom DE.
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The Landscape of Middle English Focusing on the Adverb Even
Litera: Dil, Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 The study is aimed at exploring adverb even as the information structural component, viz., a Focus marker in Middle English records based on the Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
Olena Andrushenko
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