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Kaiser, Elsi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Causal sequences can be segmented into cause and effect. However, some argue causal relations in discourse are by default in "effect-cause" order. Others claim "cause-effect" order is easier to process and the default way of expressing causality, due to iconicity. We conducted experiments testing participants' production…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Discourse Analysis, Language Processing, Decision Making
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Geffen, Susan; Mintz, Toben H. – Language Learning and Development, 2015
Word order is a core mechanism for conveying syntactic structure, yet interrogatives usually disrupt canonical word orders. For example, in English, polar interrogatives typically invert the subject and auxiliary verb and insert an utterance-initial "do" if no auxiliary is present. These word order patterns result from differences in the…
Descriptors: Infants, Word Order, Language Acquisition, Language Processing