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Turns out, arranging words to minimize syntactic dependency distance in sentences with star-like structures is easier than we thought, suggesting other factors drive word order.
Word order isn't arbitrary: languages optimize for minimal "swap distance" between related words, even when defying common SOV/SVO patterns.
Gestures across languages are surprisingly efficient, achieving at least 77% optimality in minimizing the number of adjacent swaps needed to reach their observed order.
