Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages
Explaining the variation between human languages and the constraints on that variation is a core goal of linguistics. In the last 20 y, it has been claimed that many striking universals of cross-linguistic variation follow from a hypothetical principle that dependency length—the distance between syn...
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National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
2016
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