Why we need a gradient approach to word order

N Levshina, S Namboodiripad, M Allassonnière-Tang… - Linguistics, 2023 - degruyter.com
This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order
preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order …

Anticipatory Processing in a Verb‐Initial Mayan Language: Eye‐Tracking Evidence During Sentence Comprehension in Tseltal

G Garrido Rodriguez, E Norcliffe, P Brown… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We present a visual world eye‐tracking study on Tseltal (a Mayan language) and investigate
whether verbal information can be used to anticipate an upcoming referent. Basic word …

The neurofunctional network of syntactic processing: cognitive systematicity and representational specializations of objects, actions, and events

B Gonering, DP Corina - Frontiers in Language Sciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Theoretical accounts of syntax are broadly divided into lexicalist or construction-based
viewpoints, where lexicalist traditions argue that a great deal of syntactic information is …