Cat Hobaiter
@nakedprimate.bsky.social
Primatologist studying communication and cognition in wild apes. Some time academic. Full time naked ape. PI Wild Minds Lab @ University of St Andrews. She/her.
www.wildminds.ac.uk
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An underexplored word order principle, swap distance minimization, constrains word variation even after controlling for the actual word order diversity.
Joint work with @hectobreak.bsky.social and Arnau Martí Llobet
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www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Y6CPR...
Joint work with @hectobreak.bsky.social and Arnau Martí Llobet
Free <50 copies
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Y6CPR...
Swap Distance Minimization Beyond Entropy Minimization in Word Order Variation
Consider a linguistic structure formed by n elements, for instance, subject, directobject and verb (n=3) or subject, direct object, indirect object and verb (n=4). We investigate whether the freque...
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January 22, 2026 at 11:40 AM
An underexplored word order principle, swap distance minimization, constrains word variation even after controlling for the actual word order diversity.
Joint work with @hectobreak.bsky.social and Arnau Martí Llobet
Free <50 copies
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Y6CPR...
Joint work with @hectobreak.bsky.social and Arnau Martí Llobet
Free <50 copies
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Y6CPR...