• Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century 

      Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos (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).
    • Optimality of syntactic dependency distances 

      Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon; Gómez-Rodríguez, Carlos; Esteban, Juan Luis; Alemany-Puig, Lluís (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 ...