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Order of Mention in Causal Sequences: Talking about Cause and Effect in Narratives and Warning Signs
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

Bennett, David C. – Journal of Linguistics, 1987
Suggests that Slovene is acquiring a verb-second (V2) word order. Slovene is compared with Serbo-Croat to reveal diverged word order of these languages. Aspects of the history of the Germanic languages are examined for clues on current and possible future changes in Slovene. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diachronic Linguistics, Function Words, Language Styles
Hsiao, Franny; Gibson, Edward – Cognition, 2003
This paper reports results from a self-paced reading study in Chinese that demonstrates that object-extracted relative clause structures are less complex than corresponding subject-extracted structures. These results contrast with results from processing other Subject-Verb-Object languages like English, in which object-extracted structures are…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Word Order, Morphology (Languages), Generative Grammar
Enkvist, Nils Erik; von Wright, Marianne – 1978
Certain word-order patterns are more basic and less marked than others. The more strongly marked a pattern seems to be in isolation, the stronger must be the contextual forces motivating its use, if it is to seem natural in a text. Various topicalizations (of adverbials, objects, and parts of verb phrases, for example) need various degrees of…
Descriptors: Coherence, Computational Linguistics, Data Processing, Deep Structure