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    Word order change.Ana Maria Martins & Adriana Cardoso (eds.) - 2018 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This volume explores word order change within the framework of diachronic generative syntax and offers new insights into word order, syntactic movement, and related phenomena. It draws on data from a wide range of languages including Sanskrit, Tocharian, Portuguese, Irish, Hungarian and Coptic Egyptian.
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    IDL-PMCFG, a Grammar Formalism for Describing Free Word Order Languages.François Hublet - 2022 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 31 (3):327-388.
    We introduce _Interleave-Disjunction-Lock parallel multiple context-free grammars_ (IDL-PMCFG), a novel grammar formalism designed to describe the syntax of free word order languages that allow for extensive interleaving of grammatical constituents. Though interleaved constituents, and especially the so-called hyperbaton, are common in several ancient (Classical Latin and Greek, Sanskrit...) and modern (Hungarian, Finnish...) languages, these syntactic structures are often difficult to express in existing formalisms. The IDL-PMCFG formalism combines Seki et al.’s parallel multiple context-free grammars (PMCFG) with Nederhof (...)
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    On the difference in the formalization of logic by the Ancient Indians and Ancient Greeks in connection with the difference in word order under predication.А. В Парибок - 2022 - Philosophy Journal 15 (4):35-42.
    The article discusses some logical, semantic and metaphysical consequences or correla­tions with the introduced typology of word order in verbal and nominal sentences, which in the European tradition represent speech patterns used in judgments. The combinatorics of word order gives four variants, of which three are actually represented by native lan­guages of distinctive philosophical traditions. It is shown that the Western word order predisposes the semantic intuition in favor of substantialism, the Arabic variety (in (...)
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    Word Order in Sanskrit and Universal Grammar.J. F. Staal - 1969 - Philosophy East and West 19 (2):202-204.
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    Word order and information status in child language.Bhuvana Narasimhan & Christine Dimroth - 2008 - Cognition 107 (1):317-329.
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    Word order universals.John A. Hawkins - 1983 - New York: Academic Press.
    Word Order Universals is a detailed account of word order universals and their role in theories of historical change. The starting point is the Greenberg data set, which is comprised of a sample of 142 languages for certain limited co-occurrences of basic word orders, and a 30-language sample for more detailed information. In the Language Index, the 142 have been expanded to some 350 languages. Using the original Greenberg samples and the Expanded Sample, (...)
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    The pragmatics of word order: typological dimensions of verb initial languages.Doris L. Payne - 1990 - New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
    Chapter One Introduction Located in northeastern Peru, Yagua comes from an area of the world which has to date figured little in formulations of linguistic ...
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    Word-Order Change as a Source of Grammaticalisation.Susann Fischer - 2010 - John Benjamins Pub. Company.
    1. Introduction -- 2. Different views on grammaticalisation and its relation to word-order -- 3. Historical overview of oblique subjects in Germanic and Romance -- 4. Historical overview of stylistic fronting in Germanic and Romance -- 5. Accounting for the differences and similarities between the languages under investigation -- 6. Explaining the changes: minimalism meets von Humboldt and Meillet -- References.
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    Word-Order in Latin - Dirk G. J. Panhuis: The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence. A Study of Latin Word Order. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 11.) Pp. viii+178. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1982. fl. 60. [REVIEW]J. G. F. Powell - 1984 - The Classical Review 34 (01):75-77.
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    Word-Order in Latin - Dirk G. J. Panhuis: The Communicative Perspective in the Sentence. A Study of Latin Word Order. (Studies in Language Companion Series, 11.) Pp. viii+178. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1982. fl. 60. [REVIEW]J. G. F. Powell - 1984 - The Classical Review 34 (1):75-77.
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    Separating hierarchical relations and word order in language production: is proximity concord syntactic or linear?Gabriella Vigliocco & Janet Nicol - 1998 - Cognition 68 (1):13-29.
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    Investigating Word Order Emergence: Constraints From Cognition and Communication.Marieke Schouwstra, Danielle Naegeli & Simon Kirby - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    How do cognitive biases and mechanisms from learning and use interact when a system of language conventions emerges? We investigate this question by focusing on how transitive events are conveyed in silent gesture production and interaction. Silent gesture experiments have been used to investigate cognitive biases that shape utterances produced in the absence of a conventional language system. In this mode of communication, participants do not follow the dominant order of their native language, and instead condition (...)
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    When Cars Hit Trucks and Girls Hug Boys: The Effect of Animacy on Word Order in Gestural Language Creation.Annemarie Kocab, Hannah Lam & Jesse Snedeker - 2018 - Cognitive Science 42 (3):918-938.
    A well‐known typological observation is the dominance of subject‐initial word orders, SOV and SVO, across the world's languages. Recent findings from gestural language creation paradigms offer possible explanations for the prevalence of SOV. When asked to gesture transitive events with an animate agent and inanimate patient, gesturers tend to produce SOV order, regardless of their native language biases. Interestingly, when the patient is animate, gesturers shift away from SOV to use of other orders, like SVO and (...)
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    A learning bias for word order harmony: Evidence from speakers of non-harmonic languages.Jennifer Culbertson, Julie Franck, Guillaume Braquet, Magda Barrera Navarro & Inbal Arnon - 2020 - Cognition 204 (C):104392.
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  15. Word Order and Incremental Update.Maria Bittner - 2003 - In Proceedings from CLS 39-1. CLS.
    The central claim of this paper is that surface-faithful word-by-word update is feasible and desirable, even in languages where word order is supposedly free. As a first step, in sections 1 and 2, I review an argument from Bittner 2001a that semantic composition is not a static process, as in PTQ, but rather a species of anaphoric bridging. But in that case the context-setting role of word order should extend from cross-sentential discourse anaphora to (...)
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    Word Order Predicts Cross‐Linguistic Differences in the Production of Redundant Color and Number Modifiers.Sarah A. Wu & Edward Gibson - 2021 - Cognitive Science 45 (1):e12934.
    When asked to identify objects having unique shapes and colors among other objects, English speakers often produce redundant color modifiers (“the red circle”) while Spanish speakers produce them less often (“el circulo (rojo)”). This cross‐linguistic difference has been attributed to a difference in word order between the two languages, under the incremental efficiency hypothesis (Rubio‐Fernández, Mollica, & Jara‐Ettinger, 2020). However, previous studies leave open the possibility that broad language differences between English and Spanish may explain this cross‐linguistic (...)
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    A Bayesian Model of Biases in Artificial Language Learning: The Case of a WordOrder Universal.Jennifer Culbertson & Paul Smolensky - 2012 - Cognitive Science 36 (8):1468-1498.
    In this article, we develop a hierarchical Bayesian model of learning in a general type of artificial language‐learning experiment in which learners are exposed to a mixture of grammars representing the variation present in real learners’ input, particularly at times of language change. The modeling goal is to formalize and quantify hypothesized learning biases. The test case is an experiment (Culbertson, Smolensky, & Legendre, 2012) targeting the learning of wordorder patterns in the nominal domain. The model (...)
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    Word order and scrambling.Simin Karimi (ed.) - 2003 - Malden, Mass.: Blackwell.
    Word Order and Scrambling introduces readers to recent research into the linguistic phenomenon called scrambling and is a valuable contribution to the fields of ...
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    Memory Versus Expectation: Processing Relative Clauses in a Flexible Word Order Language.Eszter Ronai & Ming Xiang - 2023 - Cognitive Science 47 (1):e13227.
    Memory limitations and probabilistic expectations are two key factors that have been posited to play a role in the incremental processing of natural language. Relative clauses (RCs) have long served as a key proving ground for such theories of language processing. Across three self-paced reading experiments, we test the online comprehension of Hungarian subject- and object-extracted RCs (SRCs and ORCs, respectively). We capitalize on the syntactic properties of Hungarian that allow for a variety of word orders within (...)
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    A new perspective on word order preferences: the availability of a lexicon triggers the use of SVO word order.Hanna Marno, Alan Langus, Mahmoud Omidbeigi, Sina Asaadi, Shima Seyed-Allaei & Marina Nespor - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6:152231.
    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 matter of debate. Here we provide a new perspective on word order preferences that emphasizes the role of a lexicon. We propose that while there is a tendency to favor SOV in the case (...)
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    Early Word Order Usage in Preschool Mandarin-Speaking Typical Children and Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Influences of Caregiver Input?Ying Alice Xu, Letitia R. Naigles & Yi Esther Su - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    This study explores the emergence and productivity of word order usage in Mandarin-speaking typically-developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder, and examines how this emergence relates to frequency of use in caregiver input. Forty-two caregiver-child dyads participated in video-recorded 30-min semi-structured play sessions. Eleven children with ASD were matched with 10 20-month-old TD children and another 11 children with ASD were matched with 10 26-month-old TD children, on expressive language. We report four major findings: Preschool Mandarin-speaking (...)
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    Word Order Typology Interacts With Linguistic Complexity: A Cross‐Linguistic Corpus Study.Himanshu Yadav, Ashwini Vaidya, Vishakha Shukla & Samar Husain - 2020 - Cognitive Science 44 (4):e12822.
    Much previous work has suggested that word order preferences across languages can be explained by the dependency distance minimization constraint (Ferrer‐i Cancho, 2008, 2015; Hawkins, 1994). Consistent with this claim, corpus studies have shown that the average distance between a head (e.g., verb) and its dependent (e.g., noun) tends to be short cross‐linguistically (Ferrer‐i Cancho, 2014; Futrell, Mahowald, & Gibson, 2015; Liu, Xu, & Liang, 2017). This implies that on average languages avoid inefficient or complex structures for simpler (...)
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    Prosody facilitates learning the word order in a new language.Amanda Saksida, Ana Flo, Bruno Guedes, Marina Nespor & Marcela Peña Garay - 2021 - Cognition 213 (C):104686.
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    Balancing Effort and Information Transmission During Language Acquisition: Evidence From Word Order and Case Marking.Maryia Fedzechkina, Elissa L. Newport & T. Florian Jaeger - 2016 - Cognitive Science 40 (6):n/a-n/a.
    Across languages of the world, some grammatical patterns have been argued to be more common than expected by chance. These are sometimes referred to as language universals. One such universal is the correlation between constituent order freedom and the presence of a case system in a language. Here, we explore whether this correlation can be explained by a bias to balance production effort and informativity of cues to grammatical function. Two groups of learners were presented with miniature (...)
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    Balancing Effort and Information Transmission During Language Acquisition: Evidence From Word Order and Case Marking.Maryia Fedzechkina, Elissa L. Newport & T. Florian Jaeger - 2017 - Cognitive Science 41 (2):416-446.
    Across languages of the world, some grammatical patterns have been argued to be more common than expected by chance. These are sometimes referred to as (statistical) language universals. One such universal is the correlation between constituent order freedom and the presence of a case system in a language. Here, we explore whether this correlation can be explained by a bias to balance production effort and informativity of cues to grammatical function. Two groups of learners were presented with (...)
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    Conceptual accessibility and sentence production in a free word order language.Kiel Christianson & Fernanda Ferreira - 2005 - Cognition 98 (2):105-135.
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    Grammatical licensing and relative clause parsing in a flexible word-order language.Matthew W. Wagers, Manuel F. Borja & Sandra Chung - 2018 - Cognition 178 (C):207-221.
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    Information Structure and Word Order Canonicity in the Comprehension of Spanish Texts: An Eye-Tracking Study.Carolina A. Gattei, Luis A. París & Diego E. Shalom - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12:629724.
    Word order alternation has been described as one of the most productive information structure markers and discourse organizers across languages. Psycholinguistic evidence has shown that word order is a crucial cue for argument interpretation. Previous studies about Spanish sentence comprehension have shown greater difficulty to parse sentences that present a word order that does not respect the order of participants of the verb's lexico-semantic structure, irrespective to whether the sentences follow the canonical (...) order of the language or not. This difficulty has been accounted as the cognitive cost related to the miscomputation of prominence status of the argument that precedes the verb. Nonetheless, the authors only analyzed the use of alternative word orders in isolated sentences, leaving aside the pragmatic motivation of word order alternation. By means of an eye-tracking task, the current study provides further evidence about the role of information structure for the comprehension of sentences with alternative word order and verb type, and sheds light on the interaction between syntax, semantics and pragmatics. We analyzed both “early” and “late” eye-movement measures as well as accuracy and response times to comprehension questions. Results showed an overall influence of information structure reflected in a modulation of late eye-movement measures as well as offline measures like total reading time and questions response time. However, effects related to the miscomputation of prominence status did not fade away when sentences were preceded by a context that led to non-canonical word order of constituents, showing that prominence computation is a core mechanism for argument interpretation, even in sentences preceded by context. (shrink)
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    Partial Word Order Freezing in Dutch.Gerlof J. Bouma & Petra Hendriks - 2012 - Journal of Logic, Language and Information 21 (1):53-73.
    Dutch allows for variation as to whether the first position in the sentence is occupied by the subject or by some other constituent, such as the direct object. In particular situations, however, this commonly observed variation in word order is ‘frozen’ and only the subject appears in first position. We hypothesize that this partial freezing of word order in Dutch can be explained from the dependence of the speaker’s choice of word order on the (...)
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    The role of discourse context in the processing of a flexible word-order language.E. KaisEr & J. Trueswell - 2004 - Cognition 94 (2):113-147.
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    Late Bilinguals Are Sensitive to Unique Aspects of Second Language Processing: Evidence from Clitic Pronouns Word-Order.Eleonora Rossi, Michele Diaz, Judith F. Kroll & Paola E. Dussias - 2017 - Frontiers in Psychology 8.
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    Theoretical approaches to disharmonic word order.Theresa Biberauer & Michelle Sheehan (eds.) - 2013 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This title considers whether any generalisations can be made about word order in language. The chapters, written by international scholars, draw on data from several 'disharmonic' and typologically distinct languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Basque, French, English, Hixkaryana (a Cariban language), Khalkha Mongolian, Uyghur Turkic, and Afrikaans.
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    Cognitive accessibility predicts word order of couples’ names in English and Japanese.Adele E. Goldberg & Karina Tachihara - 2020 - Cognitive Linguistics 31 (2):231-249.
    We investigate the order in which speakers produce the proper names of couples they know personally in English and Japanese, two languages with markedly different constituent word orders. Results demonstrate that speakers of both languages tend to produce the name of the person they feel closer to before the name of the other member of the couple (N = 180). In this way, speakers’ unique personal histories give rise to a remarkably systematic linguistic generalization in both English and (...)
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    The Language of Legitimacy and Decline: Grammar and the Recovery of Vedānta in Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita’s Tattvakaustubha.Jonathan R. Peterson - 2020 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 48 (1):23-47.
    The scope and audacity of Bhaṭṭoji Dīkṣita’s contributions to Sanskrit grammar has made him one of early-modern India’s most influential, if not controversial, intellectuals. Yet for as consequential as Bhaṭṭoji’s has been for histories of early-modern scholasticism, his extensive corpus of non-grammatical writings has attracted relatively little scholarly attention. This paper examines Bhaṭṭoji’s work on Vedānta, the Tattvakaustubha, in order to gage how issues of language became an increasingly important site of inter-religious critique among early-modern Vedāntins. In (...)
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    A theory of word order with special reference to Spanish.Heles Contreras - 1976 - New York: sale distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, America Elsevier Pub. Co..
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    A simulation study on word order bias.Tao Gong, James W. Minett & William S.-Y. Wang - 2009 - Interaction Studies 10 (1):51-76.
    The majority of the extant languages have one of three dominant basic word orders: SVO, SOV or VSO. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain this word order bias, including the existence of a universal grammar, the learnability imposed by cognitive constraints, the descent of modern languages from an ancestral protolanguage, and the constraints from functional principles. We run simulations using a multi-agent computational model to study this bias. Following a local order approach, the model simulates (...)
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    A simulation study on word order bias.Tao Gong, James W. Minett & William S.-Y. Wang - 2009 - Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 10 (1):51-75.
    The majority of the extant languages have one of three dominant basic word orders: SVO, SOV or VSO. Various hypotheses have been proposed to explain this word order bias, including the existence of a universal grammar, the learnability imposed by cognitive constraints, the descent of modern languages from an ancestral protolanguage, and the constraints from functional principles. We run simulations using a multi-agent computational model to study this bias. Following a local order approach, the model simulates (...)
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    Conceptual accessibility and sentence production in a free word order language.Kiel Christianson & Fernanda Ferreira - 2005 - Cognition 98 (2):105-135.
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    Some Types of Abnormal Word-Order in Attic Comedy.K. J. Dover - 1985 - Classical Quarterly 35 (02):324-.
    On the analogy of the colloquial register in some modern languages, where narrative and argument may be punctuated by oaths and exclamations in order to maintain a high affective level and compel the hearer's attention, it is reasonable to postulate that Attic conversation also was punctuated by oaths, that this ingredient in comic language was drawn from life, and that the comparative frequency of ║ M M Δ in comedy is sufficiently explained thereby. There are obvious affinities between (...)
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    Some Types of Abnormal Word-Order in Attic Comedy.K. J. Dover - 1985 - Classical Quarterly 35 (2):324-343.
    On the analogy of the colloquial register in some modern languages, where narrative and argument may be punctuated by oaths and exclamations (sometimes obscene or blasphemous) in order to maintain a high affective level and compel the hearer's attention, it is reasonable to postulate that Attic conversation also was punctuated by oaths, that this ingredient in comic language was drawn from life, and that the comparative frequency of ║ (|)M M(M) Δ in comedy is sufficiently explained thereby. There (...)
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  41. Vākyārthamīmāṃsā viśeshāṅka.Rājendraprasāda Śarmā (ed.) - 2003 - Jayapura: Darśanaśāstra Vibhāga, Rājasthāna Viśvavidyālaya.
    Contributed seminar papers on philosophy of sentence according to Mimamsa philosophy and Bhartrhari' Sanskrit grammar. Special issues of Journal of Foundational reserach.
     
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    Information status and word order: An analysis of English inversion.Betty J. Birner - 1994 - In Stephen Everson (ed.), Language. Cambridge University Press. pp. 233--259.
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    An explanation of word order change SVO→ SOV.Charles N. Li & Sandra A. Thompson - 1974 - Foundations of Language 12 (2):201-214.
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    Colour word usage within languages follows the Berlin and Kay ordering.I. C. McManus - 1999 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22 (4):724-724.
    Colour word usage within languages follows the same ordering as that proposed by Berlin and Kay between languages. This provides additional validation and support for Berlin and Kay's schema.
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    Words of Defamation in Sanskrit Legal Language.E. Washburn Hopkins - 1925 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 45:39-50.
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    WORDS, WORDS, SDROW—and alas, WORDS: The Fate of Words and Language in Turbulent Times.Victor Castellani - 2024 - The European Legacy 29 (3-4):321-333.
    Everyone, even when asserting unchallengeable authority from God or Science, thinks in language, in words and phrases, in expressions of moral, social and political impact, fighting words and words with and over which we fight. However, debates among the educated can be irrelevant elsewhere, ineffective against the highly motivated whose dogma instructs and guides them, their voting and their arming. The degeneration of “democracy” to “tyranny” such as Plato’s Republic postulated threatens in some lands “of the free,” while in (...)
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  47. Words in Motion: Language and Discourse in Post-new Order Indonesia.Keith Foulcher, Mikohiro Moriyama, Manneke Budiman, Titima Suthiwan, Rungnapha Kitiarsa, Masuhara Hitomi, Saito Tsugumi, Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong, T. Ruanni F. Tupaz & Robert Koehler - 2013 - Philosophy East and West 63 (2).
     
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    Simulating the coevolution of compositionality and word order regularity.Tao Gong - 2011 - Interaction Studies 12 (1):63-106.
    This paper proposes a coevolutionary scenario on the origins of compositionality and word order regularity in human language, and illustrates it using a multi-agent, behavioral model. The model traces a `bottom-up' process of syntactic development; artificial agents, by iterating local orders among lexical items, gradually build up basic constituent word order(s) in sentences. These results show that structural features of language (e.g. syntactic categories and word orders) could have coevolved with lexical items, as (...)
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  49. On verb-initial and verb-final word orders in lokaa.Mark Baker - manuscript
    Verb phrases seems to be head initial in affirmative sentences in Lokaa (a Niger-Congo language of the Cross River area of Nigeria) but head final in negative clauses and gerunds. This article aspires to give a comprehensive description of this phenomenon, together with a theoretical analysis. It considers how a full range of grammatical elements are ordered in both kinds of clauses—including direct objects, second objects, particles, weak pronouns, complement clauses, serial verbs, adverbs, prepositional phrases, tense/mood particles, and auxiliary (...)
     
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    Simulating the coevolution of compositionality and word order regularity.Tao Gong - 2011 - Interaction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 12 (1):63-106.
    This paper proposes a coevolutionary scenario on the origins of compositionality and word order regularity in human language, and illustrates it using a multi-agent, behavioral model. The model traces a ‘bottom-up’ process of syntactic development; artificial agents, by iterating local orders among lexical items, gradually build up basic constituent word order in sentences. These results show that structural features of language could have coevolved with lexical items, as a consequence of general learning mechanisms initially (...)
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