Heaviness vs. newness: The effects of structural complexity and discourse status on constituent ordering

By Jennifer E. Arnold, Anthony Losongco, T. Wasow, Ryan Ginstrom. 2015

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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English genitive variation – the state of the art1 (2014, methodology): “…method to make up for limitations of the other, in order to ultimately get converging evidence on genitive variation (for advocates of this rationale see Gries 2002 and Rosenbach 2013 for genitive variation, and Arnold et al. 2000 and Ford & Bresnan 2013 for other cases of grammatical variation).”
Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses (2007, background): “We suggest that these discourse-based facts, along with the fact that given information is more accessible and are thus easier to produce ( Arnold et al., 2000 ), lead to the distributional patterns found in our corpora studies.”
Gradient Grammar: An Effect of Animacy on the Syntax of give in New Zealand and American English (2008, background): “Measures of syntactic complexity are " so highly correlated as to be empirically indistinguishable " (Cueni 2004), and can be efficiently measured by counting the number of graphemic words (Arnold et al. 2000, Szmrecsányi 2004, Wasow 2002).”
Reference production: Production-internal and addressee-oriented processes (2008, background): “…object, or unfamiliar, complex figures without conventional 2 Speakers also have a preference cross-linguistically for canonical word orders (e.g., Arnold et al., 2000b; Ferreira & Yoshita, 2003), e.g., the active voice in English. names (Arnold, Hudson Kam, & Tanenhaus; 2007c; Arnold, Tanenhaus,…”
Investigating locality effects and surprisal in written English syntactic choice phenomena. (2016, positive): “Arnold et al. (2000) tested the effect of heaviness and newness of constituents in determining constituent order choices using a corpus study as well as a production experiment.”
Minimization of dependency length in written English. (2007, positive): “…also predicts phenomena in ambiguity resolution: in prepositional-phrase attachment decisions (Gibson & Pearlmutter, 1994; Thornton, MacDonald, & Arnold, 2000) and main-verb/reduced-relative ambiguities (Gibson, 2000), the preferred interpretation reflects a preference for structures with…”
Efficiency and complexity in grammars (2004, background): “Since then, however, Arnold et al. (2000) have shown, for Dative Movement and Heavy NP Shift alternations in English, that there is evidence for pragmatic status as an additional contributing factor, even though pragmatics and weight are correlated.”