Edward Gibson: uncertainty

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…Just to clarify, the distance of the dependencies is whenever the boy cried, there’s a dependence between two words and then you’re counting the number of what morphemes between them? That’s a good question. I just say words. Your words are morphemes between, we don’t know that. Actually that’s a very good question. What is the distance metric? But let’s just say it’s words. Sure. Okay. And you’re saying the longer the distance of that dependence, no matter the language, except legalese.…

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