The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - Large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2017 Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed by the ordering of the words for languages like Mandarin Chinese, or ...
Koplenig A +3 more
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Acquiring Complex Focus-Marking: Finnish 4- to 5-Year-Olds Use Prosody and Word Order in Interaction. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2016 Using a language game to elicit short sentences in various information structural conditions, we found that Finnish 4- to 5-year-olds already exhibit a characteristic interaction between prosody and word order in marking information structure.
Arnhold A, Chen A, Järvikivi J.
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A new perspective on word order preferences: The availability of a lexicon triggers the use of SVO word order [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Word orders are not distributed equally: SOV and SVO are the most prevalent among the world’s languages. While there is a consensus that SOV might be the ‘default’ order in human languages, the factors that trigger the preference for SVO are still a ...
Hanna eMarno +5 more
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Negative Transfer Effects on L2 Word Order Processing [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Does first language (L1) word order affect the processing of non-canonical but grammatical syntactic structures in second language (L2) comprehension? In the present study, we test whether L1-Spanish speakers of L2-Basque process subject–verb–object (SVO)
Kepa Erdocia, Itziar Laka
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A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order [PDF]
Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023 While natural languages differ widely in both canonical word order and word order flexibility, their word orders still follow shared cross-linguistic statistical patterns, often attributed to functional pressures.
Thomas Hikaru Clark +10 more
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Word Order Does Matter and Shuffled Language Models Know It [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Recent studies have shown that language models pretrained and/or fine-tuned on randomly permuted sentences exhibit competitive performance on GLUE, putting into question the importance of word order information.
Vinit Ravishankar +3 more
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When classifying grammatical role, BERT doesn’t care about word order... except when it matters [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 Because meaning can often be inferred from lexical semantics alone, word order is often a redundant cue in natural language. For example, the words chopped, chef, and onion are more likely used to convey “The chef chopped the onion,” not “The onion ...
Isabel Papadimitriou +2 more
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Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little [PDF]
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2021 A possible explanation for the impressive performance of masked language model (MLM) pre-training is that such models have learned to represent the syntactic structures prevalent in classical NLP pipelines.
Koustuv Sinha +5 more
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Word Order Typology in Kholosi Language [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2022 A Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies the systematic similarities and differences between the different languages of the world and compares the morphological and syntactic structures between different languages without ...
Tayyebe Ghasemi +2 more
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Why we need a gradient approach to word order
Linguistics, 2021 This article argues for a gradient approach to word order, which treats word order preferences, both within and across languages, as a continuous variable.
N. Levshina +14 more
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