"Long before short" preference in the production of a head-final language

Cognition

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 2001, Pages

  Yamashita, Hiroko ^a   Chang, Franklin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Japanese; Language production; Phrasal ordering; Scrambling

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPETITION; FORMAL LANGUAGES;

SPEAKERS;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; SPEECH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035452893     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(01)00121-4     Document Type: Article

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