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The optimality of attaching unlinked labels to unlinked meanings
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Vocabulary learning by children can be characterized by many biases. When encountering a new word, children as well as adults, are biased towards assuming that it means something t…
Why SOV might be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? A theoretical framework
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Little is known about why SOV order is initially preferred and then discarded or recovered. Here we present a framework for understanding these and many related word order phenomen…
The placement of the head that minimizes online memory: a complex systems approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
It is well known that the length of a syntactic dependency determines its online memory cost. Thus, the problem of the placement of a head and its dependents (complements or modifi…
Hubiness, length, crossings and their relationships in dependency trees
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Here tree dependency structures are studied from three different perspectives: their degree variance (hubiness), the mean dependency length and the number of dependency crossings.…
Random crossings in dependency trees
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
It has been hypothesized that the rather small number of crossings in real syntactic dependency trees is a side-effect of pressure for dependency length minimization. Here we answe…
The risks of mixing dependency lengths from sequences of different length
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Haitao Liu
Mixing dependency lengths from sequences of different length is a common practice in language research. However, the empirical distribution of dependency lengths of sentences of th…