Towards a theory of word order. Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al
arXiv:1706.04872 · doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2017.06.019
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Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al
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