SOV (subject-object-verb) word order is most common in natural languages.

1. SOV (subject-object-verb) word order is most common in natural languages. In a hypothetical miniature artificial language learning experiment, native speakers of English (a language with subject-verb-object [SVO] order) are found to learn SOV (subject-object-verb) more easily than OSV (object-subject-verb) word order. These data argue:

a. against a cross linguistic preference for SOV word order

b. none of the above

c. do not speak to a cross linguistic preference for SOV word order

d. for a cross linguistic preference for SOV word order

2. Which of the following forms does not involve recursion?