Preprint-Word order patterns in gesture are sensitive to modality-specific production constraints
Preprint-Word order patterns in gesture are sensitive to modality-specific production constraints
A fundamental typological variation in the world’s languages is their basic word order; around 80% of spoken languages are either Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) or Subject-Verb-Object (SVO). Previous work has related this typological pattern to a striking finding in ad-hoc gesture production: across a wide range of languages, people tend to use …