Experimental evidence for the influence of structure and meaning on linear order in the noun phrase

Recent work has used artificial language experiments to argue that hierarchical representations drive learners’ expectations about word order in complex noun phrases like these two green cars (Culbertson & Adger 2014; Martin, Ratitamkul, et al. 2019). When trained on a novel language in which in...

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Main Authors: Alexander Martin, Annie Holtz, Klaus Abels, David Adger, Jennifer Culbertson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-09-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1085