A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency¶
Hawkins, J. A. (1994). A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency. Language, Usage and Cognition.
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Primes¶
- Linguistic Universals
- universals reflect innate Universal Grammar, a language-specific cognitive module); (b) functionalist explanations (Hawkins 1994, Bybee 2010
This sourceHawkins Bybee processing constraints frequency usage-based functional explanation universals.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract of Hawkins 1994 states that processing gives a functional explanation for ordering, backing the functionalist label for that half of the citation; it says nothing about Bybee 2010.
“He argues that processing can provide a simple, functional explanation for syntactic rules of ordering, as well as for the selection among ordering variants in languages and structures in which variation is possible.”
- Psycholinguistics and processing: Hawkins 1994 Performance Theory of Order and Constituency proposes that word-order universals emerge from online-comprehension efficiency.
This sourceHawkins Performance Theory word-order universals processing efficiency comprehension.
SupportedVerified against the publisher's abstract
Hawkins joins typological work on language universals to psycholinguistic work on processing and offers "a unified theory of free and fixed word orders, in which ordering is driven by efficient structure recognition", with the ordering principle Early Immediate Constituents "tested on performance data from ten distinct languages". Word-order regularities arising from the efficiency of online structure recognition is what the sentence attributes to the book.
“The major ordering principle proposed, Early Immediate Constituents, is tested on performance data from ten distinct languages. The result is a unified theory of free and fixed word orders, in which ordering is driven by efficient structure recognition.”
- universals reflect innate Universal Grammar, a language-specific cognitive module); (b) functionalist explanations (Hawkins 1994, Bybee 2010
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