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<strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Washington</strong><br />
Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics<br />
Lecture 1:<br />
Introduction<br />
Test the model<br />
*Man a with saw telescope I a.<br />
Observation: the ordering <strong>of</strong> words appears to<br />
be important in this language.<br />
English is generally Subject‐Verb‐Object (SVO), which is less common among<br />
world languages than SOV. In Russian, word order is more restricted in<br />
transitive clauses. Some languages, such as Datooga in Tanzania have free<br />
word order. Hixkaryana and Tamil are a few <strong>of</strong> examples <strong>of</strong> the rare OVS<br />
languages.<br />
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