Current Views on the Relationship Between Cognitive Information Status and Sentence Structure
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Violeta Kalėdaitė
Department of English Philology, Vytautas Magnus University
Published 2003-12-01
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Kalėdaitė, V. (2003) “Current Views on the Relationship Between Cognitive Information Status and Sentence Structure”, Kalbotyra, 53(3), pp. 32–40. Available at: https://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/23294 (Accessed: 29 March 2024).

Abstract

Over the past several decades a vast body of literature has emerged investigating the native speaker’s implicit ability to assess the appropriateness of a grammatical sentence in a particular context. The present paper attempts to examine some of the most influential approaches that address the question of how cognitive and pragmatic factors correlate with constituent order. In a field where so much literature has been written there is an urgent need to be very selective; the paper therefore focuses on very general tendencies, facts and assumptions that relate to the vast area of the present discussion.

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