The effect of being human and the basis of grammatical word order: Insights from novel communication systems and young sign languages
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- 作者：Irit Meira ; imeir@univ.haifa.ac.il" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Mark Aronoffb ; Carl Bö ; rstellc ; So-One Hwangd ; Deniz Ilkbasarand ; Itamar Kastnere ; Ryan Lepicd ; Adi Lifshitz Ben-Basatf ; Carol Paddend ; Wendy Sandlera
- 关键词：Word order ; New sign languages ; Elicited pantomime ; Animacy ; Humanness ; Salience
- 刊名：Cognition
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：January 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：158
- 期：Complete
- 页码：189-207
- 全文大小：1690 K
文摘
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We examine the emergence of word order in both experimental settings and new sign languages.
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A main factor in determining word order preferences is whether the object argument is human.
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Human arguments are more salient and therefore are produced first, irrespective of their syntactic or semantic role.
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Signers of new sign languages show preference for both SOV and OSV when the object is human.