The effect of being human and the basis of grammatical word order: Insights from novel communication systems and young sign languages - Meir, Irit; Aronoff, Mark; Börstell, Carl; Hwang, So-One; Ilkbasaran, Deniz; Kastner, Itamar; Lepic, Ryan; Lifshitz Ben-Basat, Adi; Padden, Carol; Sandler, Wendy (Cognition, 2017)
Keywords: Accounts; Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Animacy; Child; Child, Preschool; Children & youth; Clauses; Cognitive ability; Communication; Communications systems; Deafness; Elicited pantomime; Encoding (Cognitive process); Female; Gestures; Grammar; Grammatical subject; Hearing; Humanness; Humans; Language Development; Learning transfer; Linguistic interference; Linguistics; lingvistik; Male; Middle Aged; New sign languages; Novels; Question answer sequences; Salience; Scarcity; Semantic processing; Semantics; Sign Language; Syntactic processing; Utterances; Word order; Young Adult; Animacy; Humanness; Word order; Elicited pantomime; New sign languages; Salience