If correct, this would refute the universality of the noun-verb distinction in Linguistics, with significant implications for Linguistic Typology and Theoretical Syntax.
the first component of the EM algorithm (the Expectation Step) is the same as the process by which k-means assigns a data point to a cluster, however in the second step of EM (the Maximisation Step), the cluster centroids are recomputed such that the likelihood of the parameters of the distributions are maximised.