{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/a-statistical-comparison-of-some-theories-of","title":"A Statistical Comparison of Some Theories of NP Word Order","arxiv_id":"1709.02783","date":"2017-09-08","proceeding":null,"authors":["Richard Futrell","Roger Levy","Matthew Dryer"],"abstract":"A frequent object of study in linguistic typology is the order of elements\n{demonstrative, adjective, numeral, noun} in the noun phrase. The goal is to\npredict the relative frequencies of these orders across languages. Here we use\nPoisson regression to statistically compare some prominent accounts of this\nvariation. We compare feature systems derived from Cinque (2005) to feature\nsystems given in Cysouw (2010) and Dryer (in prep). In this setting, we do not\nfind clear reasons to prefer the model of Cinque (2005) or Dryer (in prep), but\nwe find both of these models have substantially better fit to the typological\ndata than the model from Cysouw (2010).","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.02783v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1709.02783v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"a-statistical-comparison-of-some-theories-of","repo_url":"https://github.com/psejenks/berkeley_u20","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"regression-1","task_name":"regression"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}