Minimization of dependency length in written English

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 105; no. 2; pp. 300 - 333
• Main Author: Temperley, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.11.2007; Elsevier; Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Biological and medical sciences; Complements; Comprehension; Corpus studies; England (Cambridge); English; English language; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Grammatical Relations; Humans; Language; Language Processing; Linguistic complexity; Linguistic Units; Linguistics; Nouns; Phrase Structure; Production and perception of written language; Psycholinguistics; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reading; Semantics; Sentence processing; Sentence Structure; Sentences; Subject; Syntactic Complexity; Syntactic dependency; Syntactic Processing; Syntactic Structures; Syntax; Verbal Behavior; Writing; Writing Processes; Written Language; United Kingdom (Cambridge); Sentence processing; Linguistic complexity; Syntactic dependency; Corpus studies; Human; English; Language; Length; Dependence; Cognition; Syntax; Sentence

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