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Memory limitations are hidden in grammar
(RAM-Verlag, 2022)
[Abstract] The ability to produce and understand an unlimited number of different sentences is a hallmark of human language. Linguists have sought to define the essence of this generative capacity using formal grammars ...
The scaling of the minimum sum of edge lengths in uniformly random trees
(2016-06)
[Abstract] The minimum linear arrangement problem on a network consists of finding the minimum sum of edge lengths that can be achieved when the vertices are arranged linearly. Although there are algorithms to solve this ...
Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century
(2016)
[Abstract] 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).
Cognitive Constraints Built into Formal Grammars: Implications for Language Evolution
(Ravignani, A., Barbieri, C., Martins, M., Flaherty, M., Jadoul, Y., Lattenkamp, E., Little, H., Mudd, K., Verhoef, T., 2020-04-17)
[Abstract] We study the validity of the cognitive independence assumption using an ensemble of artificial syntactic structures from various classes of dependency grammars. Our findings show that memory limitations have ...
Optimality of syntactic dependency distances
(American Physical Society, 2022-01)
[Abstract]: It is often stated that human languages, as other biological systems, are shaped by cost-cutting pressures but, to what extent? Attempts to quantify the degree of optimality of languages by means of an optimality ...