Publication: Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity
Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity
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Jing, Y., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2021). Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. Cognitive Science, 45(11), e13056. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13056
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Previous work suggests that when speakers linearize syntactic structures, they place longer and more complex dependents further away from the head word to which they belong than shorter and simpler dependents, and that they do so with increasing rigidity the longer expressions get, for example, longer objects tend to be placed further away from their verb, and with less variation. Current theories of sentence processing furthermore make competing predictions on whether longer expressions are preferentially placed as early or as late a
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Jing, Y., Widmer, P., & Bickel, B. (2021). Word Order Variation is Partially Constrained by Syntactic Complexity. Cognitive Science, 45(11), e13056. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13056
