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  1. An Agent‐First Preference in a Patient‐First Language During Sentence Comprehension.Sebastian Sauppe, Åshild Næss, Giovanni Roversi, Martin Meyer, Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky & Balthasar Bickel - 2023 - Cognitive Science 47 (9):e13340.
    The language comprehension system preferentially assumes that agents come first during incremental processing. While this might reflect a biologically fixed bias, shared with other domains and other species, the evidence is limited to languages that place agents first, and so the bias could also be learned from usage frequency. Here, we probe the bias with electroencephalography (EEG) in Äiwoo, a language that by default places patients first, but where sentence-initial nouns are still locally ambiguous between patient or agent roles. Comprehenders (...)
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