Abstract We investigate the order in which speakers produce the proper names of couples they know personally in English and Japanese, two languages with markedly different constituent word orders. Results demonstrate that speakers of both languages tend to produce the name of the person they feel closer to before the name of the other member of the couple (N = 180). In this way, speakers’ unique personal histories give rise to a remarkably systematic linguistic generalization in both English and Japanese. Insofar as closeness serves as an index of cognitive accessibility, the current work demonstrates that systematicity emerges from a domain-general property of memory.

中文翻译：

---

认知可及性预测英语和日语中夫妻名字的词序

摘要我们研究了说话者用英语和日语（两种语言的组成词序明显不同）产生他们所认识的夫妻的专有名称的顺序。结果表明，使用这两种语言的人往往会在两个人的其​​他成员的名字之前（N = 180）使他们觉得更接近的人的名字。这样，说话者独特的个人历史就引起了英语和日语两种语言系统的语言概括。就亲密性作为认知可及性的指标而言，当前的研究表明，系统性是由记忆的领域通用属性产生的。