Langus, Alan and Marina Nespor. «Cognitive systems struggling for word order.» Cognitive Psychology 60.4 (2010). 291-318. Article of the future version. <http://articleofthefuture.com/S0010028510000058/> 23 January 2014
This paper reports on four experiments with Italian and Turkish speakers, trying to establish where in a sentence it is natural to put the verb. It opens with a very clear Research highlights section, but it also includes a composite image that is nothing but decoration. Three-quarters of the image is a montage of people talking, the last quarter is a intelligible reproduction of five charts.
As there are several experiments, the paper has found a variation of the IMRaD structure: Introduction, Experiment 1 (method-results-discussion), Experiment 2 (MRD), E3 (MRD), E4 (MRD), General Discussion. Exeriments are also given as flowcharts, and the «stimuli,» the images, videos and sound files presented to the research subjects, are hyperlinked as well. (In the print version, the images are printed as appendices, while the videos and sound files naturally are omitted.)
The discussion is longer and more argumentative than in the other science articles I have read, and contains a large number of references to earlier work.
Some references are not hyperlinked in the main text, this appears to be a mistake. Those references that are in the Scopus database have the abstracts included and links to full text, but that are only a few references in this paper, while all the papers were in Scopus in some of the other Article of the Future prototypes I have studied.
There are two interactive charts, the first presents the same data in two different views, unfortunately there are no numbers or scale, so its informational value is small. The second allows the reader to view only one of two series. Unlike the original charts, the deviations are not marked.
Experiments are summed up in the discussion, functioning as a repeptition for those who have reade section 3, or a summary for those who have skipped it.
As an extra service to the readers, the authors’ PowerPoint slides from a conference are available for download.
