Telling the whole story in one sentence

该项目旨在建立一个分析数百种语言中的超长句子的框架，并调查成人和儿童对这些句子的处理情况。预期的结果是语言结构、语言心理处理和大脑功能的增强模型。理解世界语言中截然不同的句子类型将进一步使外语学习者、机器翻译者和学习英语的移民受益。

This project aims to produce a framework for analysis of the ultra-long sentences that occur in hundreds of languages and to investigate the processing of these sentences by adults and children. Anticipated outcomes are enhanced models of language structure, mental processing of language, and brain functions. Understanding of drastically-different sentence types in the world’s languages will further benefit foreign language learners, machine translators, and immigrants learning English.