... or more English words are added to the hypothesizedstring, and one or more consecutive German wordsare “absorbed” (i.e., marked as having already beentranslated—note that each word is absorbed ... McCord, 2004) in acouple of important respects. First, we are consid-ering German, which arguably has more challeng-ing word order phenonema than French. Germanhas relatively free word order, ... secondposition in the clause. Finite verbs appear rigidly in2nd position in matrix clauses. In contrast, in sub-ordinate clauses, such as Clause 2, the finite verbcomes last in the clause. For example,...