If a Mandarin Chinese speaker attempts to process an English sentence with a highly unusual object-verb-subject order, which cognitive outcome is most likely?

💡 Explanation

Increased cognitive load becomes likely because the working memory demands increase dramatically when processing unusual word order through syntactic reanalysis, therefore the brain struggles to parse the non-canonical sentence, rather than automatically understanding it. Normal processing assumes the usual Subject-Verb-Object order.

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