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Markdown (Informal)
[On the Evolution of Word Order](https://aclanthology.org/2021.ranlp-srw.22) (Rejwan & Caciularu, RANLP 2021)
ACL
- Idan Rejwan and Avi Caciularu. 2021. On the Evolution of Word Order. In Proceedings of the Student Research Workshop Associated with RANLP 2021, pages 162–166, Online. INCOMA Ltd..