Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century

Abstract

A commentary on the article "Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages" by Futrell, Mahowald & Gibson (PNAS 2015 112 (33) 10336-10341).

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References in corpus (2)

• The scarcity of crossing dependencies: a direct outcome of a specific constraint?
• Dependency length minimization: Puzzles and Promises

Cited by in corpus (1)

• Memory limitations are hidden in grammar