If only they expanded on what those patterns tend to actually look like (besides merely mentioning that popular words are found with other popular words) in a way that could be used to inform language learning
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It would be nice to know what those were.
I had to dig quite a bit into the paper to find it:
English and up to 21 other languages (Bengali, Catalan, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Chinese)
Frankly that's poor sampling — 18/22 of the languages are Indo-European and/or spoken mostly in Europe.