word order
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These include word order preferences, such as whether verbs come before or after objects, and hierarchical structures, such as how grammatical relationships are marked within sentences.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026
Several researchers noted “more short sentences, confused word order, and repetition, alongside extended digressions.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2024
Nordlinger and Kidd suspect that when someone speaks a language that has a truly free word order, they are under pressure to swiftly make decisions about the sentence they will say.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 18, 2023
This is a simplification of Yoda’s syntax, but for the sake of simplicity we’ll use that label to describe his word order.
From Slate ● Dec. 4, 2019
It’s just one way to display syntax on a page, and not a particularly good one, with user-unfriendly features such as scrambled word order and arbitrary graphical conventions.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
