Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (2019)

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2019)
Xinying Chen | Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

SyntaxFest 2019 Invited talk - Dependency distance minimization: facts, theory and predictions
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

Information-theoretic locality properties of natural language
Richard Futrell

Which annotation scheme is more expedient to measure syntactic difficulty and cognitive demand?
Jianwei Yan | Haitao Liu

A quantitative probe into the hierarchical structure of written Chinese
Heng Chen | Haitao Liu

A Comparative Corpus Analysis of PP Ordering in English and Chinese
Zoey Liu

Intervention effects in object relatives in English and Italian: a study in quantitative computational syntax
Giuseppe Samo | Paola Merlo

An explanation of the decisive role of function words in driving syntactic development
Anat Ninio

Extracting out of the subject in French: experimental evidence
Anne Abeillé | Elodie Winckel

The relation between dependency distance and frequency
Xinying Chen | Kim Gerdes

Full valency and the position of enclitics in the Old Czech
Radek Cech | Pavel Kosek | Olga Navratilova | Jan Macutek

Dependency Length Minimization vs. Word Order Constraints: An Empirical Study On 55 Treebanks
Xiang Yu | Agnieszka Falenska | Jonas Kuhn

Advantages of the flux-based interpretation of dependency length minimization
Sylvain Kahane | Chunxiao Yan

Length of non-projective sentences: A pilot study using a Czech UD treebank
Jan Macutek | Radek Cech | Jiri Milicka

Gradient constraints on the use of Estonian possessive reflexives
Suzanne Lesage | Olivier Bonami

What can we learn from natural and artificial dependency trees
Marine Courtin | Chunxiao Yan