Word order preferences and the effect of phrasal length in SOV languages: evidence from sentence production in Persian
Heaviness (or phrasal length) has been shown to trigger mirror-image constituent ordering preferences in head-initial and head-final languages (heavy-late vs. heavy-first). These preferences are commonly attributed to a general cognitive pressure for processing efficiency obtained by minimizing the...
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Open Library of Humanities
2020-08-01
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| Online toegang: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5334/ |