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PAGE PAGE 21 载《当代语言学》2005-（1） 语序优势的认知解释 论可别度对语序的普遍影响 陆丙甫 Word order dominance and its cognitive explanation Abstract: Greenberg (1966) uses two notions, dominance and harmony, to explain the word order implicational universals. The notion ‘harmony’ has been explored widely since then. However, the research on the notion ‘dominance’ has been very little. This paper tries to explain word order dominance. It argues that word order dominance is mainly motivated by identifiability hierarchy. Everything else being equal, the orders more compatible with the order of identifiability hierarch