Difference between revisions of "Syntactic complexity"
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*Köhler, Reinhard (1986): ''Zur linguistischen Synergetik. Struktur und Dynamik der Lexik''. Bochum: Brockmeyer. | *Köhler, Reinhard (1986): ''Zur linguistischen Synergetik. Struktur und Dynamik der Lexik''. Bochum: Brockmeyer. | ||
*Köhler, Reinhard (1999): ''Syntactic structures: properties and interrelations''. In Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 6, 46-57. | *Köhler, Reinhard (1999): ''Syntactic structures: properties and interrelations''. In Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 6, 46-57. | ||
| − | *Köhler, Reinhard/Altmann, Gabriel (2000): ''Probability distributions of syntactic units and properties''. | + | *Köhler, Reinhard/Altmann, Gabriel (2000): ''Probability distributions of syntactic units and properties''. In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 7, |
| − | In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 7, | ||
189-200. | 189-200. | ||
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syntactic complexity can be measured in terms of the number of immediate constituents of a syntactic construction.
This property has been shown to depend on the frequency of a construction type and vice versa. In the framework of synergetic linguistics, it is also connected with position (within a mother constituent) and length (measured in terms of the number of terminal nodes.
This dependency models a hypothesis which is a modified version of Hawkins' Early Immediate Constituent principle.
References
- Hawkins, John (1994): A performance theory of order and constituency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Köhler, Reinhard (1986): Zur linguistischen Synergetik. Struktur und Dynamik der Lexik. Bochum: Brockmeyer.
- Köhler, Reinhard (1999): Syntactic structures: properties and interrelations. In Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 6, 46-57.
- Köhler, Reinhard/Altmann, Gabriel (2000): Probability distributions of syntactic units and properties. In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 7,
189-200.
