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Conjunct Lengths in English, Dependency Length Minimization, and Dependency Structure of Coordination

Year: 2023

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper confirms that, in English binary coordinations, left conjuncts tend to be shorter than right conjuncts, regardless of the position of the governor of the coordination.We demonstrate that this tendency becomes stronger when length differences are greater, but only when the governor is on the left or absent, not when it is on the right.We explain this effect via Dependency Length Minimization and we show that this explanation provides support for symmetrical dependency structures of coordination, as opposed to structures headed by the first conjunct.

Source: Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)

DOI: 10.18653/v1/2023.acl-long.864

Authors: Adam Przepiórkowski, Michał Woźniak

Institutions: Charles University, Digital Research Infrastructure for Language Technologies, Arts and Humanities, University of Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4385571565

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