@ejfranci2 @haspelmath Thanks, Elaine, I wasn't aware of this! I'm more and more swaying toward @mcmacdonald 's view that (efficient) word order has more to do with the producer's cognitive costs than with the addressee's. At least, they matter! https://t.
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@robmalouf I argue that there's more pressure to make language production efficient than comprehension. That asymmetry has many cascading effects on language, I wouldn't say it's fully "optimized" https://t.co/ySIn1T3Uif
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@wmatchin @glupyan @leraboroditsky @MH_Christiansen @SimonKirby @markseidenberg @shirilevari @LanguageMIT Yes, Miller (in Miller & Chomsky '63, less in C&M), using his Short Term Memory work & his competence/perf math ideas, claimed "processing
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@LoveOnLanguage for a link between navigation and language production, you could, um, motor on over to this: http://t.co/WMxcJxJqyw