Abstract: One of the most striking features of human languages is their extreme variety. Even more striking is the existence, behind the apparent variety, of strong representational and cognitive regularities that govern their form and their function: language universals. We discuss here some recent work from our group, where large-scale, data-intensive computational modelling techniques are used to address fundamental linguistic questions on language regularities. In the area of word order, we report here on work that leverages large amounts of monoling...
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Topics: 
Natural language processing
Artificial intelligence
Linguistics