The effects of sentence length on dependency distance, dependency direction and the implications–Based on a parallel English–Chinese dependency treebank
- 1 July 2015
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Language Sciences
- Vol. 50, 93-104
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2015.04.002
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Funding Information
- National Social Science Foundation of China (11&ZD188)
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