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Direct linkKocab, Annemarie; Lam, Hannah; Snedeker, Jesse – Cognitive Science, 2018
A well-known typological observation is the dominance of subject-initial word orders, SOV and SVO, across the world's languages. Recent findings from gestural language creation paradigms offer possible explanations for the prevalence of SOV. When asked to gesture transitive events with an animate agent and inanimate patient, gesturers tend to…
Descriptors: Word Order, Nonverbal Communication, Hypothesis Testing, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
