Publication: A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order
A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order
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Mansfield, J., & Krapp, L. S. (2025). A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order. Cognitive Science, 49(4), e70056. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70056
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Harmonic word order is a well‐established tendency in natural languages, which has previously been explained as a single ordering rule for all head‐dependent relations. We propose that it can be more parsimoniously explained as an outcome of word‐class frequencies, where the purported “head” is the most frequently instantiated word class in a phrasal schema. We show that the most frequent class gravitates spontaneously to an edge position in a phrasal replication process, as long as words of one class may influence the position of wor
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Mansfield, J., & Krapp, L. S. (2025). A Simple Explanation for Harmonic Word Order. Cognitive Science, 49(4), e70056. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70056
