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Every language, not just ancient to modern, has different syntax and a different natural word order.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
Together, the findings in chimpanzees and bonobos suggest a rudimentary form of syntax, the rules that govern word order in human language and give it flexibility and creativity.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
Put that original version of Leir into any of these fancy language models and run it through a hundred thousand times—you’ll never come close to reproducing the word order the Sweet Swan of Avon came up with.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Nordlinger had always argued that many Australian languages had free word order, unlike other languages.
—Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
There is no need to specify the subject, or even to keep to a strict word order.
—Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
The old models—LSTMs and RNNs—had word order implicitly built into the models.
—Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
This revealed the importance of word order, word meaning, and word combinations in the final product—otherwise reframed as the impact of signal motif identity, function and arrangement on T cell phenotype.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
Applying biology techniques to linguistics, the team built an evolutionary tree of word order.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2011
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 23 June 2026
Together, the findings in chimpanzees and bonobos suggest a rudimentary form of syntax, the rules that govern word order in human language and give it flexibility and creativity.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
Put that original version of Leir into any of these fancy language models and run it through a hundred thousand times—you’ll never come close to reproducing the word order the Sweet Swan of Avon came up with.
—Ayad Akhtar, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
Nordlinger had always argued that many Australian languages had free word order, unlike other languages.
—Christine Kenneally, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
There is no need to specify the subject, or even to keep to a strict word order.
—Han Kang, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
The old models—LSTMs and RNNs—had word order implicitly built into the models.
—Haomiao Huang, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2023
This revealed the importance of word order, word meaning, and word combinations in the final product—otherwise reframed as the impact of signal motif identity, function and arrangement on T cell phenotype.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
Applying biology techniques to linguistics, the team built an evolutionary tree of word order.
—Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 15 Apr. 2011
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“Word order.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/word%20order. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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