Figure 2: Summary of evolutionary dependencies in word order for four language families. Dryer’s study of the Greenberg word-order universals 4 across a world-wide sample of related and unrelated ...
Many languages have subject–verb–object order, while many others have subject–object–verb order. Why do languages vary in the way they do, and how does word order evolve? We present a theory ...
Our research contributes to debates about the role of Universal Grammar constraints and crosslinguistic influence in sequential bilingual acquisition and use. We investigate experimentally how adult ...
Objectives: This study aimed to examine age-related differences in the comprehension of Korean comparative sentences with varying word orders by employing both offline and online measures, and to ...
It is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” ...
This contribution is part of the special series of Inaugural Articles by members of the National Academy of Sciences elected in 2019. Large language models (LLMs) are a type of artificial intelligence ...
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