Abstract / Description of output
Current theories of language production disagree about the way in which conceptual accessibility influences syntactic processing (e.g. Beck, 1987; De Smedt, 1990). We present theoretical arguments that the assumption of highly incremental processing can only be reconciled with theories in which conceptual accessibility influences word order. We report a sentence recall experiment in Modern Greek that provides empirical support for this position. Our results demonstrate that Creek speakers prefer to place conceptually accessible entities in early word order positions, irrespective of grammatical function, contrary to previous Endings for English (Bock & Warren, 1985; McDonald, Beck Br Kelly, 1993). We interpret our results as evidence for highly incremental processing.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society |
| Editors | M Hahn, SC Stoness |
| Place of Publication | Mahwah |
| Publisher | Lawrence Erlbaum Associates |
| Pages | 96-101 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0-8058-3581-4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
| Event | 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society - VANCOUVER Duration: 19 Aug 1999 → 21 Aug 1999 |
Conference
| Conference | 21st Annual Conference of the Cognitive-Science-Society |
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| City | VANCOUVER |
| Period | 19/08/99 → 21/08/99 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- SENTENCE FORMULATION
- LANGUAGE PRODUCTION