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Chapter 11 - Grammatical Processing and Event Apprehension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2023

Masatoshi Koizumi
Masatoshi Koizumi
Affiliation:
Tohoku University, Japan
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Chapter 11 discusses some task-dependent effects on word order preference. Different tasks activate different aspects of cognitive processes in the brain. We show that the picture–sentence matching task facilitates the processing of SVO in comparison with the other orders in Kaqchikel, at least partially because of the saliency of agentive concepts accelerating memory retrieval. We also show that Kaqchikel speakers who use Spanish in daily life more tend to process Kaqchikel sentences in the SVO and VSO orders more quickly.

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grammatical processingevent apprehensionpicture–sentence matching taskbehavioral studyfMRIsyntactic processinglexical access
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Constituent Order in Language and Thought
A Case Study in Field-Based Psycholinguistics
 , pp. 115 - 125
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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