Pegah Faghiri, Pollet Samvelian. “Word order preferences and the effect of phrasal length in SOV languages: evidence from sentence production in Persian”

This study contributes to our understanding of the role phrasal length in constituent ordering preferences by studying relative order verbal complements Persian, a flexible SOV language displaying mixed head direction. To meet this objective, Faghiri and Samvelian have conducted two sentence production experiments which they investigate effect linear distance between verb its dependents, as well factors that are related conceptual accessibility includi...