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Order of main and subordinate clauses in sentence perception

✍ Scribed by V.M. Holmes

Book ID
117171559
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1973
Weight
715 KB
Volume
12
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5371

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This article examines the ordering distribution of main and adverbial clauses. Using corpus data from spoken and written English, it is shown that the positioning of finite adverbial clauses vis-a `-vis the main clause varies with their meaning or function: conditional clauses tend to precede the ma