Abstract In modern Danish, main clauses have the word order X>Verb>Adverb (i. e., V2) whereas subordinate clauses are generally characterized by the “subordinate clause” word order Subject>Adverb>Verb. Spoken Danish has a high frequency of “main clause” word order in subordinate clauses, however, and in the article we argue that this “Main Clause Phenomena” (cf. Aelbrecht et al. 2012) functions as a foregrounding device, signaling that the more important information of the clause complex is to be found in the subordinate clause instead of in its matrix clause. A prediction from the foregrounding hypothesis is that a subordinate clause with Verb>Adverb word order will attract more attention than a clause with Adverb>Verb word order. To test this, we conducted an experiment under the text change paradigm. 59 students each read 24 constructions twice, each containing a subordinate clause with either Verb>Adverb or Adverb>Verb word order. Half of the subordinate clauses were governed by a semifactive predicate (open to both word orders) and the other half by a semantically secondary sentence (in itself strongly favoring Verb>Adverb word order). Attention to the subordinate clause was tested by measuring how disinclined the participants were to notice change of a word in the subordinate clause when re-reading it. Results showed significantly more attention to Verb>Adverb clauses than to Adverb>Verb clauses (though only under semifactive predicates), and more attention to subordinate clauses under semantically secondary than semifactive predicates. We consider this as strongly supporting the hypothesis that Verb>Adv word order functions as a foregrounding signal in subordinate clauses.

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从句的依序推论：丹麦语中V> Adv（V2）词序功能的语言学证据

摘要在现代丹麦语中，主要从句的词序为X>动词>副词（即V2），而从句从句的特征通常是“从句从句”的词序为Subject> Adverb> Verb。丹麦语口语在从句中经常出现“主句”词序，但是在本文中，我们认为“主句现象”（参见Aelbrecht等人，2012年）起着前台作用，表明在从属子句中而不是在其矩阵子句中可以找到子句复杂的更重要的信息。根据前景假说的预测，动词>副词词序的从属子句比副词>动词词序的从句更受关注。为了测试这一点，我们在文本更改范例下进行了一项实验。59名学生分别阅读了24种结构两次，每个结构都包含一个从动从句，该从句具有动词>副词或副词>动词词序。从属从句的一半由半主动谓词（对两个词序均开放）控制，另一半由语义上的次要句子（其本身强烈支持动词>副词词序）控制。通过测量参与者在重新阅读时对子句中单词变化的不满意程度，测试了对子句的关注度。结果显示，与“副词>动词”子句相比，对动词>副词从句的关注显着更多（尽管仅在半主动谓词下），在语义上次要的从属子句比对半主动谓词更关注。我们认为这有力地支持了Verb>