Marjorie Barker

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 task. Syntactic Complexity: Diachrony, acquisition, neuro-cognition, evolution, Givón, T. and Masayoshi Shibatani (eds.), pp. 391–404
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 | Article
Barker, Marjorie and T. Givón. 2002. 7. On the pre-linguistic origins of language processing rates. The Evolution of Language out of Pre-language, Givón, T. and Bertram F. Malle (eds.), pp. 171–214
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