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Direct linkHall, Matthew L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation contains three studies that investigate whether attested patterns of constituent order distribution and change in the world's languages can be attributed, in part, to cognitive preferences for some constituent orders over others. To assess these preferences, seven experiments employed an "elicited pantomime" task.…
Descriptors: Pantomime, Cognitive Style, Preferences, Experiments
