A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/tacl_a_00589" target="_blank" >10.1162/tacl_a_00589</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

"While natural languages differ widely in both canonical word order and word order flexibility, their word orders still follow shared cross-linguistic statistical patterns, often attributed to functional pressures. In the effort to identify these pressures, prior work has compared real and counterfactual word orders. Yet one functional pressure has been overlooked in such investigations: The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis, which holds that information should be spread evenly throughout an utterance. Here, we ask whether a pressure for UID may have influenced word order patterns cross-linguistically. To this end, we use computational models to test whether real orders lead to greater information uniformity than counterfactual orders. In our empirical study of 10 typologically diverse languages, we find that: (i) among SVO languages, real word orders consistently have greater uniformity than reverse word orders, and (ii) only linguistically implausible counterfactual orders consistently exceed the uniformity of real orders. These findings are compatible with a pressure for information uniformity in the development and usage of natural languages.1. © 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics. Distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 license."

Název v anglickém jazyce

A Cross-Linguistic Pressure for Uniform Information Density in Word Order

Popis výsledku anglicky

"While natural languages differ widely in both canonical word order and word order flexibility, their word orders still follow shared cross-linguistic statistical patterns, often attributed to functional pressures. In the effort to identify these pressures, prior work has compared real and counterfactual word orders. Yet one functional pressure has been overlooked in such investigations: The uniform information density (UID) hypothesis, which holds that information should be spread evenly throughout an utterance. Here, we ask whether a pressure for UID may have influenced word order patterns cross-linguistically. To this end, we use computational models to test whether real orders lead to greater information uniformity than counterfactual orders. In our empirical study of 10 typologically diverse languages, we find that: (i) among SVO languages, real word orders consistently have greater uniformity than reverse word orders, and (ii) only linguistically implausible counterfactual orders consistently exceed the uniformity of real orders. These findings are compatible with a pressure for information uniformity in the development and usage of natural languages.1. © 2023 Association for Computational Linguistics. Distributed under a CC-BY 4.0 license."

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

"Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics"

ISSN

2307-387X

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

11

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2023

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

1048-1065

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85177472221