A Performance Theory of Order and Constituency

By J. Hawkins. 1995

Subfields: Cognitive Science & Psychology

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Structure-to-Text Generation with Self-Training, Acceptability Classifiers and Context-Conditioning for the GEM Shared Task (2021, background): “Given the tendency to put heavier constituents towards the end of a sentence in English (Hawkins, 1994; Gibson, 2000; Temperley, 2007; Rajkumar et al., 2016), we additionally sorted siblings by increasing subtree depth, breaking ties by sorting alphabetically on predicate names.”
Frequency effects in language acquisition, language use, and diachronic change (2007, background): “…by information processing (cf. Givón 1976; Shibatani 1991), and that the cross-linguistic word order correlations described by Greenberg and others are motivated by competing pressures from syntactic parsing, information processing, and semantics (Hawkins 1994, 2004; see also Diessel 2001, 2005).”
Innateness and culture in the evolution of language (2006, background): “Where do these universals come from? A great deal of research has proceeded under the assumption that this is essentially a biological question (3): that languages have the structure they do because of our innate faculty for acquiring (4) and processing (5) language.”
Constructions: a new theoretical approach to language. (2003, background): “Processing accounts have also been suggested to account for certain alternative word-order options [ 55 ,56].”
Predicting the dative alternation (2007, background): “, Hawkins, 1994; Snyder, 2003). One such beautifully simple and appealing theory is that of Hawkins (1994). Discourse givenness correlates with shorter, less complex expressions, because less description is needed to identify a referent.”
Recent changes in the function and frequency of Standard English genitive constructions: a multivariate analysis of tagged corpora (2007, background): “end-weight principle is a case in point: while Hawkins (1994) proposes that the role of”
An ERP study of the processing of subject and object relative clauses in Japanese (2008, methodology): “Following Ishizuka et al. (2003), dative-topic-marking was used on the head noun in order to control for potential confounds between RC type and both perspective shift (MacWhinney, 1982) and case-mismatch (Sauerland & Gibson, 1998).”