Languages often demonstrate word order inconsistencies, and such inconsistencies ought to make languages harder to acquire. We present an integrative approach exploring the relationship between learnability and word order, incorporating syntactic theory, corpus analyses and computational modelling. We focus on comparisons between English and German, and conclude that inconsistencies may be preserved in the language due to the interaction between several syntactic structures.
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Univ Michigan, Inst Social Res, Michigan Prevent Res Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 USAUniv Michigan, Inst Social Res, Michigan Prevent Res Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 USA
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San Francisco Gen Hosp, Dept Med, Div Cardiol, San Francisco, CA 94110 USA
Univ Calif San Francisco, Dept Med, San Francisco, CA 94143 USAMayo Clin, Dept Cardiovasc Dis, Heart Rhythm Serv, Jacksonville, FL 32224 USA