This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order
preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable. Word order …

Cross-linguistic studies focus on inverse correlations (trade-offs) between linguistic
variables that reflect different cues to linguistic meanings. For example, if a language has no …

Sentence acceptability experiments have become increasingly common since Cowart
(1997) first presented a detailed method for carrying them out, but there is still relatively little …

We investigate the order in which speakers produce the proper names of couples they know
personally in English and Japanese, two languages with markedly different constituent word …

Both the concept of native speaker/signer and the term itself have been widely critiqued
across fields of language research. However, this term is still often used uncritically by …

Though English sentences are typically inflexible vis-\a-vis word order, constituents often
show far more variability in ordering. One prominent theory presents the notion that …

Les effets de l'animéité et de la proéminence de l'agent dans le traitement linguistique et
cognitif sont bien établis dans la littérature. Toutefois, la mesure dans laquelle l'argument de …

Despite the growing interest in endangered languages, relatively little attention has been
paid to the ways in which the structure of these languages is conditioned by the language …

This article argues for collecting primary data using psycholinguistic methods to better
explain contact-induced change in constituent order. I compare the results of acceptability …

This chapter applies a Diasystematic Construction Grammar (DCxG) approach to account for
non-Dravidian vocabulary and phonology in Malayalam, a high-contact Dravidian language …