SyntaxFest 2019 Invited talk - Dependency distance minimization: facts, theory and predictions
Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho · 2019
Quantitative linguistics is a branch of linguistics concerned about the study of statistical facts about languages and their explanation aiming at constructing a general theory of language.The quantitative study of syntax has become central to this branch of linguistics.The fact that the distance between syntactically related words is smaller than expected by chance in many languages led to the formulation of a dependency distance minimization (DDm) principle.