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Linear Order As A Predictor Of Word Order Regularities

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MICHAEL CYSOUW () (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany)
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This is a reply to Ramon Ferrer-I-Cancho's paper in this issue "Some Word Order Biases from Limited Brain Resources: A Mathematical Approach." In this reply, I challenge the Euclidean distance model proposed in that paper by proposing a simple alternative model based on linear ordering.

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Article provided by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. in its journal Advances in Complex Systems.

Volume (Year): 11 (2008)
Issue (Month): 03 ()
Pages: 415-420
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Keywords: Linear order; word order; language universals; human language;

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