Heaviness vs. newness: The effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering
Heaviness vs. newness: The effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering
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DOI：
10.2307/417392
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发表时间：
2000-03-01
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2.1
通讯作者：
Ginstrom, R
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作者：
Arnold, JE;Wasow, T;Ginstrom, R
动词后成分排序的变化被归因于语法复杂性（重）和语篇状态（新），尽管很少有研究明确比较这两个因素。通过语料分析和实验，我们证明这两个因素同时和独立地影响两个英语结构的词序。虽然过去对这些因素的研究主要集中在它们对语言理解的影响上，但我们认为，推迟大量的和新的成分有助于计划和生产的过程。
Variations in postverbal constituent ordering have been attributed to both grammatical complexity (heaviness) and discourse status (neu ness), although few studies compare the two factors explicitly. Through corpus analysis and experimentation, we demonstrate that both factors simultaneously and independently influence word order in two English constructions. while past investigations of these factors have focused on their effects in language comprehension, we argue that postponing heavy and new constituents facilitates processes of planning and production.*