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Direct linkKaiser, Elsi; Trueswell, John C. – Cognition, 2004
On-line comprehension studies of flexible word-order languages find that noncanonical ("scrambled") structures induce more difficulty than canonical structures [e.g., Hyona & Hujanen, "Q. J. Exp. Psychol." 50A (1997) 841-858], with this difference being attributed to the structural complexity/infrequency of these forms. However, by presenting…
Descriptors: Syntax, Discourse Modes, Finno Ugric Languages, Language Processing
