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cs.CL2015★ 1 cited
Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
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).
cs.CL2015
A commentary on "The now-or-never bottleneck: a fundamental constraint on language", by Christiansen and Chater (2016)
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
In a recent article, Christiansen and Chater (2016) present a fundamental constraint on language, i.e. a now-or-never bottleneck that arises from our fleeting memory, and explore i…
cs.CL2015★ 14 cited
Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
The syntactic structure of sentences exhibits a striking regularity: dependencies tend to not cross when drawn above the sentence. We investigate two competing explanations. The tr…