4 papers
How to measure the optimality of word or gesture order with respect to the principle of swap distance minimization
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The structure of all the permutations of a sequence can be represented as a permutohedron, a graph where vertices are permutations and two vertices are linked if a swap of adjacent…
Ease of dependency distance minimization in star-like structures
EmÃlia Garcia-Casademont, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be represented as a tree where edges indicate syntactic dependencies between words. When that structure is a star, it has been demonstrate…
Swap distance minimization shapes the order of subject, object and verb in languages of the world
Jairo Rios-El-Yazidi, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Languages of the world vary concerning the order of subject (S), object (O) and verb (V). The most frequent dominant orders are SOV and SVO, and researchers have tailored models to…
Swap distance minimization beyond entropy minimization in word order variation
VÃctor Franco-Sánchez, Arnau MartÃ-Llobet, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Consider a linguistic structure formed by elements, for instance, subject, direct object and verb () or subject, direct object, indirect object and verb (). We invest…