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#062 - Dr. Guy Emerson - Linguistics, Distributional Semantics
Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)
Is There a Line of Research to Explain Adjective Ordering Preferences
There's an interesting line of research trying to explain adjective ordering preferences and other kinds of er ordering phenomenon in terms of communicative efficiency. If we can explain the fact that you would have a surten order because of er, because of wanting to put something earlier in the sentence, either because it's easier to produce or it's easier for the other person to stand, that could be one way that you can get this kind of phenomenon without its being directly innate. But even if it explains some of the variation, i think tat's interesting though. It might be that the language ends up changing into a certain form, which is not necessarily a product of, you know, ou our
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