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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Why are categories adjacent?
Beteiligte:
HAWKINS, JOHN A.
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2001
Erschienen in:Journal of Linguistics
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/s002222670100860x
ISSN:
1469-7742;
0022-2267
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<jats:p>This paper presents patterns of adjacency in performance data and in cross-linguistic
grammatical conventions. It is argued that a common principle of processing
efficiency explains both: the more syntactic and semantic relations whose processing
domains are minimized, and the greater the minimization preference in the processing
of each relation, the more adjacency we find. The preferences of performance are
quite systematic and it is suggested that they are ultimately motivated by reductions
in simultaneous processing demands in working memory. The correlations with
patterns of grammatical variation exist because grammars have conventionalized the
adjacency preferences of performance.</jats:p>