Hiram Ring
@hiramring.bsky.social
Linguist, musician, dabbler in arcane arts.
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Hiram Ring
@hiramring.bsky.social
· May 23
Word length predicts word order: "Min-max"-ing drives language evolution
Current theories of language propose an innate (Baker 2001; Chomsky 1981) or a functional (Greenberg 1963; Dryer 2007; Hawkins 2014) origin for the surface structures (i.e. word order) that we observe...
arxiv.org
“Word length predicts word order” - preprint of a newly submitted paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.13913
In this paper I show that the length of nouns and verbs correlates with word order crosslinguistically: nouns are longer than verbs in SV lgs & shorter than verbs in VS lgs. 1/6
In this paper I show that the length of nouns and verbs correlates with word order crosslinguistically: nouns are longer than verbs in SV lgs & shorter than verbs in VS lgs. 1/6
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As part of revamping my introductory Python for Linguists course, I'm getting students to work on actual low-resource languages by developing a POS-tagger (hg2051-ntu.github.io/project1). Inspired partly by @rtommccoy.bsky.social’s post back in January, 1/3
HG2051 – HG2051 Project 1: Individual assignment
hg2051-ntu.github.io
July 29, 2025 at 4:34 AM
As part of revamping my introductory Python for Linguists course, I'm getting students to work on actual low-resource languages by developing a POS-tagger (hg2051-ntu.github.io/project1). Inspired partly by @rtommccoy.bsky.social’s post back in January, 1/3
Reposted by Hiram Ring
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A new working paper that presents a dependency-annotated version of the *taggedPBC*: arxiv.org/abs/2506.06785 - here I show that for 1500+ languages, dependency relations transferred via English allow for extraction of transitive word order patterns (SVO, VSO, etc)… 1/3
Extending dependencies to the taggedPBC: Word order in transitive clauses
The taggedPBC (Ring 2025a) contains more than 1,800 sentences of pos-tagged parallel text data from over 1,500 languages, representing 133 language families and 111 isolates. While this dwarfs previou...
arxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A new working paper that presents a dependency-annotated version of the *taggedPBC*: arxiv.org/abs/2506.06785 - here I show that for 1500+ languages, dependency relations transferred via English allow for extraction of transitive word order patterns (SVO, VSO, etc)… 1/3
“Word length predicts word order” - preprint of a newly submitted paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.13913
In this paper I show that the length of nouns and verbs correlates with word order crosslinguistically: nouns are longer than verbs in SV lgs & shorter than verbs in VS lgs. 1/6
In this paper I show that the length of nouns and verbs correlates with word order crosslinguistically: nouns are longer than verbs in SV lgs & shorter than verbs in VS lgs. 1/6
Word length predicts word order: "Min-max"-ing drives language evolution
Current theories of language propose an innate (Baker 2001; Chomsky 1981) or a functional (Greenberg 1963; Dryer 2007; Hawkins 2014) origin for the surface structures (i.e. word order) that we observe...
arxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:09 AM
“Word length predicts word order” - preprint of a newly submitted paper! arxiv.org/abs/2505.13913
In this paper I show that the length of nouns and verbs correlates with word order crosslinguistically: nouns are longer than verbs in SV lgs & shorter than verbs in VS lgs. 1/6
In this paper I show that the length of nouns and verbs correlates with word order crosslinguistically: nouns are longer than verbs in SV lgs & shorter than verbs in VS lgs. 1/6