Why are some word orders more common than others? A Uniform Information Density account

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23: 24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2010, NIPS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Maurits, Luke ^a   Perfors, Amy ^a   Navarro, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

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Indexed keywords

INFORMATION CONTENTS; INFORMATION DENSITY; OBJECTS-FIRST; WORD ORDERS;

EID: 85162347167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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