Information processing and cross-linguistic universals in syntax: Dependency length minimization

Wednesday 28 September 2022, 14:00
Invité: 
Ted Gibson (MIT, invité UFR-L)
Organisation: 
Anne Abeillé (LLF)
Lieu: 

Université Paris Cité – Bât. Sophie Germain –Amphithéâtre Türing

Ted Gibson (MIT)
Information processing and cross-linguistic universals in syntax: Dependency length minimization

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  • Futrell, Levy, R.P., & Gibson, E. (2020). Dependency locality as an explanatory principle for word order. Language.
  • Futrell, R., Gibson, E., & Levy, R.P. (2020). Lossy-Context Surprisal: An Information-Theoretic Model of Memory Effects in Sentence Processing. Cognitive Science 44, e12814, DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12814
  • Martínez, E., Mollica, F., & Gibson, E. (2022). Poor writing, not specialized concepts, drives processing difficulty in legal language. Cognition, 224, 105070.