Processing Difficulty and Principles of Grammar
Gisbert Fanselow, Reinhold M. Kliegl, Matthias Schlesewsky · Kluwer Academic Publishers eBooks · 2006
Some words are more difficult to pronounce than others, and, similarly, some sentence types are harder to process than others. Such processing differences are due to properties of the human parser, and these may be responsible for certain laws of natural language syntax is not a new idea: it is a key concept in linguistic