Word Order Variation in Spoken and Written Corpora: A Cross-Linguistic Study of SVO and Alternative Orders

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Výsledek na webu

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Word Order Variation in Spoken and Written Corpora: A Cross-Linguistic Study of SVO and Alternative Orders

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Word Order Variation in Spoken and Written Corpora: A Cross-Linguistic Study of SVO and Alternative Orders

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

D - Stať ve sborníku

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

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název statě ve sborníku

Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Dependency Linguistics

ISBN

979-8-89176-290-9

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Počet stran výsledku

6

Strana od-do

150-155

Název nakladatele

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Místo vydání

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Místo konání akce

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Datum konání akce

1. 1. 2026

Typ akce podle státní příslušnosti

WRD - Celosvětová akce

Kód UT WoS článku

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