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Linguistic word order explained by swap distance minimization principle

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Two new papers explore the principle of swap distance minimization as a factor shaping word order in human languages. The research suggests that variations in subject, object, and verb order, even in languages without a dominant SOV or SVO structure, can be explained by this principle. One paper introduces a mathematical framework to measure the optimality of word order and gesture order, finding crosslinguistic gestures to be at least 77% optimal. AI

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IMPACT Introduces a novel mathematical framework for analyzing linguistic structures, potentially influencing future NLP research.

RANK_REASON Two academic papers published on arXiv introduce a new linguistic theory.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 · Jairo Rios-El-Yazidi, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho ·

    Swap distance minimization shapes the order of subject, object and verb in languages of the world

    arXiv:2604.26726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Languages of the world vary concerning the order of subject, object and verb. The most frequent dominant orders are SOV and SVO, and researchers have tailored models to this fact. However, there are still languages whose dominant or…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 · Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho ·

    Swap distance minimization shapes the order of subject, object and verb in languages of the world

    Languages of the world vary concerning the order of subject, object and verb. The most frequent dominant orders are SOV and SVO, and researchers have tailored models to this fact. However, there are still languages whose dominant order does not conform to these expectations or ev…

  3. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 · Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho ·

    How to measure the optimality of word or gesture order with respect to the principle of swap distance minimization

    arXiv:2604.01938v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The structure of all the permutations of a sequence can be represented as a permutohedron, a graph where vertices are permutations and two vertices are linked if a swap of adjacent elements in the permutation of one of the verti…

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