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lineage-specific word order trends: a standalone construct

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Linguistic typology

finding from phylogenetic analysis that word order features co-evolve differently across language families, challenging universal correlations.

In linguistic typology, lineage-specific word order trends refers to finding from phylogenetic analysis that word order features co-evolve differently across language families, challenging universal correlations. This meaning comes from Dunn (2011) in Nature.[1]

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References

Dunn, M., Greenhill, S. J., Levinson, S. C., & Gray, R. D. (2011). Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals. Nature, 473(7345), 79-82. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature09923

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