postposing is a feature of spoken language. it is a process that postposes a preverbal constituent to a position after the verb, without changing the overall meaning of the sentence. in this study we focus on this linguistic phenomenon and its relation to factors such as grammatical weight, definiteness, animacy and information structure. to investigate the occurrence of this process and its in...

Human language is characterized by variability in that the way in which language is used varies depending, for example, on facts about the identity of the speaker or author, the social context, and surrounding linguistic material. Variability poses formidable challenges to the systems underlying language comprehension, which are known to exploit statistical contingencies in the input to overcom...