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Is the subject-before-object preference universal? An event-related potential study in the Kaqchikel Mayan language

Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2015-10, Vol.30 (9), p.1209-1229 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis 2015 ;ISSN: 2327-3798 ;EISSN: 2327-3801 ;DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1080372

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  • Title:
    Is the subject-before-object preference universal? An event-related potential study in the Kaqchikel Mayan language
  • Author: Yasunaga, Daichi ; Yano, Masataka ; Yasugi, Yoshiho ; Koizumi, Masatoshi
  • Subjects: Basic word order ; field-based psycholinguistics ; Guatemala ; processing load ; syntactic complexity
  • Is Part Of: Language, cognition and neuroscience, 2015-10, Vol.30 (9), p.1209-1229
  • Description: The processing load of sentences with different word orders in the Kaqchikel Mayan language was investigated using event-related potentials. We observed a P600 for subject-verb-object and verb-subject-object sentences as compared to verb-object-subject (VOS) sentences, suggesting that VOS order is easier to process than the other orders. This is consistent with the traditional interpretation in Mayan linguistics that the syntactically determined basic word order is VOS in Kaqchikel, as in many other Mayan languages. More importantly, the results revealed that the preference for subject-object word order in sentence comprehension observed in previous studies may not be universal; rather, processing load in sentence comprehension is greatly affected by the syntactic nature of individual languages.
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2327-3798
    EISSN: 2327-3801
    DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1080372
  • Source: Taylor & Francis Open Access
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