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Direct linkGershkoff-Stowe, Lisa; Goldin-Medow, Susan – Cognitive Psychology, 2002
All languages rely to some extent on word order to signal relational information. Why? We address this question by exploring communicative and cognitive factors that could lead to a reliance on word order. In Study 1, adults were asked to describe scenes to another using their hands and not their mouths. The question was whether this home-made…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Nonverbal Communication, Semantics, Word Order
