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Spatial agency bias and word order flexibility : a comparison of 14 European languages
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Suitner, Caterina; Maass, Anne; Navarrete, Eduardo; Formanowicz, Magdalena; Bratanova, Boyka; Cervone, Carmen; Hakoköngäs, Juho Eemeli; Kuppens, Toon; Lipourli, Eleni; Rakić, Tamara; Scatolon, Andrea; Teixeira, Catia P.; Wang, Zhenlan; Sobral, Maria Pedro; Carrier, Antonin. - 2021
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The spatial agency bias predicts that people whose native language is rightward written will predominantly envisage action along the same direction. Two mechanisms contribute jointly to this asymmetry: (a) an embodied process related to writing/reading; (b) a linguistic regularity according to which sentence subjects (typically the agent) tend to precede objects (typically the recipient). Here we test a novel hypothesis in relation to the second mechanism, namely, that this asymmetry will be most pronounced in languages with rigid word order. A preregistered study on 14 European languages (n = 420) varying in word order flexibility confirmed a rightward bias in drawings of interactions between two people (agent and recipient). This bias was weaker in more flexible languages, confirming that embodied and linguistic features of language interact in producing it. ; Publisher PDF ; Peer reviewed
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BF; BF Psychology; Cross-linguistic; DAS; Experimental and Cognitive Psychology; Language and Linguistics; Linguistics and Language; Psychology(all); Spatial agency bias; Word order
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716420000831 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/21548
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Word Order in Complex Verb Phrases in Heritage Polish Spoken in Germany
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In: Languages ; 6 (2021), 2. - 70. - MDPI. - eISSN 2226-471X (2021)
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To be or not to be adultlike in syntax: An experimental study of language acquisition and processing in children
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Younger Deaf People's Attitudes Toward American Sign Language Structure
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Emerging linguistic features of Sao Tome and Principe sign language
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The Development of Case Morphology and Sentential Word Order in Arabic as a Second Language: A Processability Perspective
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In: Theses and Dissertations (2021)
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A Data-driven Approach to Crosslinguistic Structural Biases
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In: Proceedings of the Society for Computation in Linguistics (2021)
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The VOS Puzzle
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In: Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, Vol 10, Iss 1 (2021) (2021)
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Does language transfer explain it all? The case of first language change in Russian-English bilinguals
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In: Russian Journal of Linguistics, Vol 25, Iss 4, Pp 908-930 (2021) (2021)
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Mind your weight: ‘Motionlessly’ sitting between the object and the verb in Japanese
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In: Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; Vol 6, No 1 (2021): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America; 463–475 ; 2473-8689 (2021)
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Information structure and word ordering selection. - Research on functional grammar of Chinese ; 1 : Information structure and word ordering selection. -
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