Andrew Sudhooa and Matthew Hulse interview David Adger about his work on linguistic univerals

David describes the work he did with Jenny Culbertson (Edinburgh University) and Klaus Abels (UCL) investigating potential linguistic universals in word ordering.

See the following for more details:

A universal cognitive bias in word order: Evidence from speakers whose language goes against it. Martin, A., Adger, D., Abels, K., Kanampiu, P., & Culbertson, J. Psychological science. 2024.link

Does a universal hierarchical structure underlie word order typology?. Martin, A., Kanampiu, P., Adger, D., Abels, K., & Culbertson, J. In Ravignani, A., Barbieri, C., Flaherty, M., Jadoul, Y., Lattenkamp, E., Little, H., Martins, M., Mudd, K., & Verhoef, T., editor(s), Proceedings of EVOLANG 13. 2020.link

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