Large-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languages

By Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald, Edward Gibson. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence

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Citations in the corpus

• Investigating locality effects and surprisal in written English syntactic choice phenomena. (2016, positive): “Futrell, Mahowald, and Gibson (2015) extend these results by conducting a large-scale study of dependency length minimization involving 37 languages (see also Ferrer i Cancho 2004, Gulordava & Merlo 2015, Liu 2008).”
• Dependency distance: A new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural languages. (2017, background): “Another study (which LXL cite) shows similar variation (albeit measured differently) between Arabic, with 16.4 for 12-word sentences and Ancient Greek with 26.3 (Futrell, Mahowald & Gibson 2015).”