How Animacy and Verbal Information Influence V2 Sentence Processing: Evidence from Eye Movements
There exists a clear association between animacy and the grammatical function of transitive subject. The grammar of some languages require the transitive subject to be high in animacy, or at least higher than the object. A similar animacy preference has been observed in processing studies in languag...
Main Authors: | de Swart Peter, van Bergen Geertje |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2019-12-01
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Series: | Open Linguistics |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2019-0035 |
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