Publications

Publication details [#804]

Antinucci, Francesco, Alessandro Duranti and Lucyna Gebert. 1978. Relative clause structure, relative clause perception, and the change from SOV to SVO. Cognition 7 : 145–176.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

relative clause | relative clause, comprehension of | word order change

Journal WWW

www.journals.elsevier.com/cognition

Annotation

An attempt to explain diachronic developments in languages from SOV to SVO, on the basis of the conflicting interaction of structural and perceptual processing principles, in particular with respect to relative clauses.