Word Order

Word order, the arrangement of words in a sentence, is a fundamental aspect of language structure influencing meaning and processing. Current research investigates how word order interacts with other linguistic features (e.g., case markers, dependency length), exploring its role in language comprehension and generation using language models like BERT and GPT, and analyzing its cross-linguistic variation through computational methods. Understanding word order's influence on language processing and its evolution across languages is crucial for advancing natural language processing and furthering our understanding of the cognitive mechanisms underlying human language.