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Does Dependency Locality Predict Non-canonical Word Order in Hindi?
Sidharth Ranjan, Marten van Schijndel
Previous work has shown that isolated non-canonical sentences with Object-before-Subject (OSV) order are initially harder to process than their canonical counterparts with Subject-…
Work Smarter...Not Harder: Efficient Minimization of Dependency Length in SOV Languages
Sidharth Ranjan, Titus von der Malsburg
Dependency length minimization is a universally observed quantitative property of natural languages. However, the extent of dependency length minimization, and the cognitive mechan…
A bounded rationality account of dependency length minimization in Hindi
Sidharth Ranjan, Titus von der Malsburg
The principle of DEPENDENCY LENGTH MINIMIZATION, which seeks to keep syntactically related words close in a sentence, is thought to universally shape the structure of human languag…
Discourse Context Predictability Effects in Hindi Word Order
Sidharth Ranjan, Marten van Schijndel, Sumeet Agarwal +1
We test the hypothesis that discourse predictability influences Hindi syntactic choice. While prior work has shown that a number of factors (e.g., information status, dependency le…
Dual Mechanism Priming Effects in Hindi Word Order
Sidharth Ranjan, Marten van Schijndel, Sumeet Agarwal +1
Word order choices during sentence production can be primed by preceding sentences. In this work, we test the DUAL MECHANISM hypothesis that priming is driven by multiple different…