Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century

09/09/2015
by   Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, et al.
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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).

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