2008
DOI: 10.17791/jcs.2008.9.2.159
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Dependency Distance as a Metric of Language Comprehension Difficulty

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“…For each pair of words linked by a dependency relation, the one is called the dependent and the other the governor . The labeled arc extends from the governor to the dependent (Liu, 2008). The directed edge from governor to dependent illustrates the asymmetrical relation between these two units.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…For each pair of words linked by a dependency relation, the one is called the dependent and the other the governor . The labeled arc extends from the governor to the dependent (Liu, 2008). The directed edge from governor to dependent illustrates the asymmetrical relation between these two units.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This tendency is found across different languages (Liu, 2008; Futrell et al, 2015), genres (Wang and Liu, 2017), and also code-switching discourses (Wang and Liu, 2013), suggesting that it is impacted by external constraints, especially that of limited working memory. This impact has been established in a succession of empirical investigations in various languages (Gibson, 1998; Hsiao and Gibson, 2003; Grodner and Gibson, 2005).…”
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“…Sentence structure is the form, and semantics is the content. [7] The results of syntactic analysis is the basic of semantic analysis. In the system, the language environment is so single, simple semantic analysis is enough in some time.…”
Section: B Analysis Limited Natural Language Sentence Structure and mentioning
confidence: 99%