While there have been many investigations of the comprehension of head-final languages, there have been fewer studies of how they are produced. In this chapter, we discuss the mechanisms of syntactic processing in the production of head-initial and head-final languages. In particular, we consider three factors that have been hypothesized to influence syntactic choice in language production - the conceptual accessibility of nouns, structural priming and the length of noun phrases and examine how these phenomena influence syntactic processing in head-initial and head-final languages. We then discuss the extent to which syntactic processing might involve the same mechanisms in head-initial and head-final language production.
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Tanaka, M. N., Branigan, H. P., & Pickering, M. J. (2011). The production of head-initial and head-final languages. In Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (Vol. 38, pp. 113–129). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9213-7_6
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