Year: 1996
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The objective of this pal)er is to [brmalize the intuition al)out l,he comph;xity of syntactic structures.We propose a definition of structm:al COml)h'xity such that sentences ranked by our definition as more COml)h;x are gen(;rally more diI'ficult lbr humans to process.We justify the definition by showing how it is ahle to account for several seemingly unrelated phenomena in natural languages.
Author: Dekang Lin
Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W1972620750