SOME WORD ORDER BIASES FROM LIMITED BRAIN RESOURCES: A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH

DOI10.1142/S0219525908001702MaRDI QIDQ3534192zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Publication date 3 November 2008

Published in Advances in Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

human languageword orderlinguistic universalscognitive costsyntactic dependency

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Linguistics (91F20)

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