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- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kaqchikel Mayan
- Chapter 3 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension I: Behavioral Studies
- Chapter 4 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension II: fMRI Studies
- Chapter 5 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension III: ERP Studies without Context
- Chapter 6 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension IV: ERP Studies with Context
- Chapter 7 Basic Word Order in Language and Natural Order of Thought
- Chapter 8 Constituent Order Preference in Event Representation
- Chapter 9 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production I: Production Frequency
- Chapter 10 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production II: Time Course and Cognitive Load
- Chapter 11 Grammatical Processing and Event Apprehension
- Chapter 12 Syntactic Structure of Kaqchikel Revisited
- Chapter 13 Syntax and Processing Load
- Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
- Book part
- References
- Index
Chapter 13 - Syntax and Processing Load
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Constituent Order in Language and Thought
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Kaqchikel Mayan
- Chapter 3 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension I: Behavioral Studies
- Chapter 4 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension II: fMRI Studies
- Chapter 5 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension III: ERP Studies without Context
- Chapter 6 Word Order Preference in Sentence Comprehension IV: ERP Studies with Context
- Chapter 7 Basic Word Order in Language and Natural Order of Thought
- Chapter 8 Constituent Order Preference in Event Representation
- Chapter 9 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production I: Production Frequency
- Chapter 10 Word Order Preference in Sentence Production II: Time Course and Cognitive Load
- Chapter 11 Grammatical Processing and Event Apprehension
- Chapter 12 Syntactic Structure of Kaqchikel Revisited
- Chapter 13 Syntax and Processing Load
- Chapter 14 Concluding Remarks
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 13 observes how representative theories of sentence processing costs fare in accounting for the relative difficulties among Kaqchikel sentences with different word orders. The relative processing costs associated with Kaqchikel transitive sentences with the four different word orders are correctly predicted by the Hierarchical Distance Hypothesis, whereas the relative processing costs associated with the corresponding four transitive constructions in Japanese are correctly predicted by the Linear Distance Hypothesis. However, the relative processing costs in these languages are also consistent with the assumption that they are shaped by the combined effects of the three factors: production frequency, linear distance, and hierarchical distance, suggesting the cognitive uniformity of the human parser.
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- Constituent Order in Language and ThoughtA Case Study in Field-Based Psycholinguistics, pp. 141 - 163Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023