Do Heavy-NP Shift Phenomenon and Constituent Ordering in English Cause Sentence Processing Difficulty for EFL Learners?
Do Heavy-NP Shift Phenomenon and Constituent Ordering in English Cause Sentence Processing Difficulty for EFL Learners?

Masoud Motamedynia; Navid Nasrollahi Shahri; Behzad Ghonsooly

Volume 35, Issue 1 , May 2016, , Pages 139-159

https://doi.org/10.22099/jtls.2016.3747

Abstract
  Heavy-NP shift occurs when speakers prefer placing lengthy or “heavy” noun phrase direct objects in the clause-final position within a sentence rather than in the post-verbal ...  Read More