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Inferences about the distant past and future of the cross-linguistic word-order distribution. (A) How the posterior probability distribution over the word order of a hypothetical common ancestor for all six families changes as we increase the age of that ancestor (the prior distribution is uniform). (B) How the probability of a randomly selected language having a particular word order is expected to evolve from the present-day distribution.
