The correlation between word order and the position of syntactic markers:Time course analysis of sentence production

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The temporal patterns of utterances obtained by Nagata (1981) for the three types of syntactic structures, a VX (or VSO) type of language with prepositional markers (VX-Pre), VX with postpositional markers (VX-Post), and a type for which word order and the position of markers were randomly placed (Mixed), were analyzed by a latency measurement apparatus to relate the duration of pause time to the processing of the three types of structures. The results showed that:(1) differing patterns of time course for the three groups were found, indicating the presence of different processing units;(2) while greater production time for VX-Post and Mixed derived primarily from pause duration among constituents of a sentence, it tended to derive also from the production duration of the constituents. The difference in production time as an index of processing load is interpreted as reflecting a varying degree of syntactic and/or semantic processing involved in organizing the sentences.
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