Eckhard Bick - VISL

in the sequential “understanding” of an utterance, - and the extra safety tax imposed on
right hand contexts.
c) Close context conditions are more common than distant context conditions
This final observation matches one's intuition about structural cohesion, close
contexts have a higher probability of being structurally linked to the target than distant
ones. Also, when looking at a distant context, it is mandatory to check the closer
context in between, too, - for potential clause boundaries or other blocking elements. So
the -1 position will be checked both for its own sake, and (also) every time the -2, -3 or
-4 contexts are addressed.
All of the above findings are true of unbounded contexts, too:
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