Marjorie Barker

List of John Benjamins publications for which Marjorie Barker plays a role.

Articles

Barker, Marjorie and Eric Pederson 2009 Syntactic complexity versus concatenation in a verbal production taskSyntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 391–404 | Article
We tested whether the speaker’s communicative intent drives the selection of grammatical constructions. Participants viewed complex human action video stimuli and were asked to respond in detail to a single question for each video concerning either what had happened (eliciting descriptions) or why… read more
Barker, Marjorie and T. Givón 2002 7. On the pre-linguistic origins of language processing ratesThe Evolution of Language out of Pre-language, Givón, T. and Bertram F. Malle (eds.), pp. 171–214 | Chapter