Table 1.

Examples of the six different experimental conditions. Simple orders, sentences involving topic marking, and classifier constructions were presented in SOV and OSV orders.

Linguistic Structure	SOV word order	OSV word order
Simple sentence	GIRL IX3a GIRL IX3b 3aVISIT3b The girl (left) visits the girl (right).	GIRL IX3a GIRL IX3b 3bVISIT3a The girl (right) visits the girl (left).
Sentence with topic marking	________t GIRL IX3a, GIRL IX3b 3aVISIT3b The girl (left), visits the girl (right).	________t GIRL IX3a, GIRL IX3b 3bVISIT3a The girl (left), the girl (right) visits.
Sentence with a classifier	GIRL CL-LOCATED3a GIRL CL-LOCATED3b 3aCL-JUMP3b Two girls stand opposite each other and the girl on the left jumps towards the girl on the right.	GIRL CL-LOCATED3a GIRL CL-LOCATED3b 3bCL-JUMP3a Two girls stand opposite each other and the girl on the right jumps towards the girl on the left.

Signs are glossed with capital letters; IX = index/pointing sign; subscripts indicate reference points in signing space. Non-manual markings and the scope of non-manual markings are indicated by a line above the glosses; t at the end of the line stands for topic marking; the comma after the topic indicates the prosodic break, i.e. the pause after the topic. CL-LOCATED stands for the classifier representing the referents and their spatial position (and the spatial relationship between the referents). CL-JUMP stands for the classifier verb representing the movement of the active referent (in this example a jumping movement).