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A Kocab, H Lam, J Snedeker - Cognitive science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library

When cars hit trucks and girls hug boys: The effect of animacy on word order in gestural language creation.

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… The prevalence of subject-initial word orders (SOV and SVO) is often argued to stem from our conceptualization of entities and events. First, speakers may prefer for animates to appear …

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