Abstract
<jats:p>The Processing Efficiency Hypothesis holds that human languages are shaped by a pressure to maximize communicative utility while minimizing the difficulty of online processing for the producer and comprehender. This entry reviews some of the key phenomena in language processing, as discovered by the fields of computational linguistics and psycholinguistics, and their ramifications for cross‐linguistic patterns. It includes a case study on locality principles in word order, and their basis in language processing.</jats:p>
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Keywords
processing
language
their
efficiency
hypothesis