TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive loads and time courses related to word order preference in Kaqchikel sentence production
T2 - an NIRS and eye-tracking study
AU - Koizumi, Masatoshi
AU - Takeshima, Yasuhiro
AU - Tachibana, Ryo
AU - Asaoka, Riku
AU - Saito, Godai
AU - Niikuni, Keiyu
AU - Gyoba, Jiro
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [grant numbers 15H02603, 19H05589]. Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 68th Meeting of the Tohoku Psychological Association (Akita University, Japan) and the 53rd Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology (Jeju Island, Republic of Korea) as well as MIT and Harvard University. We are grateful to the participants and audience for their feedback and to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful and instructive comments on an earlier draft. We also thank Juan Esteban Ajsivinac Sian, Filiberto Patal Majzul, Lolmay Pedro Oscar Garc?a Matzar, and Yoshiho Yasugi for their invaluable support of the current study throughout its various stages. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 15H02603, 19H05589.
Funding Information:
Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 68th Meeting of the Tohoku Psychological Association (Akita University, Japan) and the 53rd Meeting of the Korean Society for Cognitive and Biological Psychology (Jeju Island, Republic of Korea) as well as MIT and Harvard University. We are grateful to the participants and audience for their feedback and to two anonymous reviewers for their insightful and instructive comments on an earlier draft. We also thank Juan Esteban Ajsivinac Sian, Filiberto Patal Majzul, Lolmay Pedro Oscar García Matzar, and Yoshiho Yasugi for their invaluable support of the current study throughout its various stages. This work was supported in part by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 15H02603, 19H05589.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/2/4
Y1 - 2020/2/4
N2 - The word order that is easiest to understand in a language generally coincides with the word order most frequently used in that language. In Kaqchikel, however, there is a discrepancy between the two: the syntactically basic VOS incurs the least cognitive load, whereas SVO is most frequently employed. This suggests that processing load is primarily determined by grammatical processes, whereas word order selection is affected by additional conceptual factors. Thus, the agent could be conceptually more salient than other elements even for Kaqchikel speakers. This hypothesis leads us to the following expectations: (1) utterance latency should be shorter for SVO sentences than for VOS sentences; (2) Kaqchikel speakers should pay more attention to agents than to other elements during sentence production; and (3) despite these, the cognitive load during sentence production should be higher for SVO than for VOS. A Kaqchikel sentence production experiment confirmed all three expectations.
AB - The word order that is easiest to understand in a language generally coincides with the word order most frequently used in that language. In Kaqchikel, however, there is a discrepancy between the two: the syntactically basic VOS incurs the least cognitive load, whereas SVO is most frequently employed. This suggests that processing load is primarily determined by grammatical processes, whereas word order selection is affected by additional conceptual factors. Thus, the agent could be conceptually more salient than other elements even for Kaqchikel speakers. This hypothesis leads us to the following expectations: (1) utterance latency should be shorter for SVO sentences than for VOS sentences; (2) Kaqchikel speakers should pay more attention to agents than to other elements during sentence production; and (3) despite these, the cognitive load during sentence production should be higher for SVO than for VOS. A Kaqchikel sentence production experiment confirmed all three expectations.
KW - VOS language
KW - Word order preference
KW - processing load
KW - sentence production
KW - utterance latency
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U2 - 10.1080/23273798.2019.1650945
DO - 10.1080/23273798.2019.1650945
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85070443327
VL - 35
SP - 137
EP - 150
JO - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
JF - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
SN - 2327-3798
IS - 2
ER -