Cognitive Science Programme

August 22, 2022
Assessing corpus evidence for formal restrictions on crossing dependencies
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstract Formal constraints on crossing dependencies have played a large role in research on the formal complexity of natural language grammars and parsing. Here we ask whether…
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August 22, 2022
A reappraisal of dependency length minimization as a linguistic universal
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstract Dependency length minimization is widely regarded as a cross-linguistic universal reflecting syntactic complexity in natural languages. A typical way to operationalize dependency length in corpus-based studies…
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August 22, 2022
Effect of noncanonical word order and argument proximity on processing of SOV languages
Faculty: Samar Husain Abstrac Crosslinguistic word order variation can be understood as a consequence of processing con straints. While the effect of word order during sentence comprehension has been studied…
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9th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science, December 08 - 10