2020年2月
Cognitive loads and time courses related to word order preference in Kaqchikel sentence production: an NIRS and eye-tracking study
LANGUAGE COGNITION AND NEUROSCIENCE
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- 巻
- 35
- 号
- 2
- 開始ページ
- 137
- 終了ページ
- 150
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1080/23273798.2019.1650945
- 出版者・発行元
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
The word order that is easiest to understand in a language generally coincides with the word order most frequently used in that language. In Kaqchikel, however, there is a discrepancy between the two: the syntactically basic VOS incurs the least cognitive load, whereas SVO is most frequently employed. This suggests that processing load is primarily determined by grammatical processes, whereas word order selection is affected by additional conceptual factors. Thus, the agent could be conceptually more salient than other elements even for Kaqchikel speakers. This hypothesis leads us to the following expectations: (1) utterance latency should be shorter for SVO sentences than for VOS sentences; (2) Kaqchikel speakers should pay more attention to agents than to other elements during sentence production; and (3) despite these, the cognitive load during sentence production should be higher for SVO than for VOS. A Kaqchikel sentence production experiment confirmed all three expectations.
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- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1080/23273798.2019.1650945
- ISSN : 2327-3798
- eISSN : 2327-3801
- Web of Science ID : WOS:000479166100001