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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Main Authors: Futrell, Richard Landy Jones, Mahowald, Kyle Adam, Gibson, Edward A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/102094
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2656-6139
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9786-8716