A study was conducted to see if the advantage in processing topicalized
sentence also extends to production. A simple read-aloud paradigm was introduced.
The subjects' responses were recorded and analyzed. The main focus of this
experiment is on the time intervals of the production of a whole sentence
and its object NP, as well as their ratio in the two versions (SVO vs.
OSV) of the same sentence. Another point of interest is the pausing after
the topic in production of topicalized sentences and its effect on efficiency
of production. The results showed that the ratio of the time intervals
of NP to the whole sentence is lower in topicalized sentence than in the
canonical counterparts. Nevertheless, no significant overall advantage
is observed in production of topicalized sentences.