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    "pk": 30092,
    "title": "Semantic influences on emergent preferences of word order:\nEvidence from silent gesture",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Across the world’s languages, some word orders are more\ncommon. We focus on noun phrases, where it is more common\nfor adjectives to follow the noun than to precede it. Because the\ninterpretation of adjectives depends on the noun they modify,\nwe propose and evaluate the new hypothesis that the order N-\nADJ is more prevalent because it is beneficial for semantic\nprocessing. In a silent gesture task, speakers of four\ntypologically-unrelated languages (English, Mandarin, Arabic\nand Spanish) communicated noun phrase meanings to a\npartner. We find, first, that our task tracks the typologically-\npreferred orders of nouns, adjectives and numerals in the noun\nphrase. More importantly, we find support for our semantic\nprocessing hypothesis: size adjectives, whose interpretation\ndepend more on the noun they modify, were more likely to be\ngestured after the noun than shape adjectives whose\ninterpretation is less dependent on the noun they modify.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "word order; noun phrase; adjectives; silent gesture;\nlinguistic universals; cognitive biases"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 3",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08t3g4fx",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Jida",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Jaffan",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Gabrielle",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Klassen",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Jordan",
            "middle_name": "Ziqi",
            "last_name": "Yang",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Daphna",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Heller",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Toronto",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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