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Tracing the roots of syntax with Bayesian phylogenetics.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Sept 2014

Maurits Luke, Griffiths Thomas L

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The ordering of subject, verb, and object is one of the fundamental components of the syntax of natural languages. The distribution of basic word orders across the world's languages is highly nonuniform, with the majority of languages being either subject-object-verb (SOV) or subject-verb-object (SVO). Explaining this fact using psychological accounts of language acquisition or processing requires understanding...

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PMID: 25192934
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1319042111
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