Word Order Variation in Spoken and Written Corpora: A Cross-Linguistic Study of SVO and Alternative Orders
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angličtina
Original language name
Word Order Variation in Spoken and Written Corpora: A Cross-Linguistic Study of SVO and Alternative Orders
Original language description
This study investigates word order variation in spoken and written corpora across five Indo-European languages: English, French, Norwegian (Nynorsk), Slovenian, and Spanish. Using Universal Dependencies treebanks, we analyze the distribution of six canonical word orders (SVO, SOV, VSO, VOS, OSV, OVS). Our results reveal that spoken language consistently exhibits greater word order flexibility than written language. This increased flexibility manifests as a decrease in the dominant SVO pattern and a rise in alternative orders, though the extent of this variation differs across languages. Morphologically rich languages such as Slovenian and Spanish show the most pronounced shifts, while English remains syntactically rigid across modalities. These findings support the claim that modality significantly affects syntactic realizations and highlight the need for typological studies to account for spoken data.
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics
ISBN
979-8-89176-290-9
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Number of pages
6
Pages from-to
150-155
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Event location
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Event date
Jan 1, 2026
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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