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Direct linkStallings, Lynne M.; MacDonald, Maryellen C. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2011
Heavy-NP shift is the tendency for speakers to place long direct object phrases at the end of a clause rather than next to the verb. Though some analyses have focused on length of the direct object phrase alone, results from two experiments demonstrate that the length of the direct object relative to that of other phrases, and not the length of…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Word Order, Nouns, Verbs
Peer reviewedMacDonald, Maryellen C. – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997
Reviews some history of how lexical representations have acquired an important role in sentence processing research. Discusses relevant issues, including the importance of timecourse information in theorizing; the importance of frequency information in theories of sentence processing; and the question of the grain of frequency information. (42…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Research
