#426 – Edward Gibson: Human Language, Psycholinguistics, Syntax, Grammar & LLMs

1215.292 - 1239.011 Edward Gibson

It just ends up with longer dependencies than if you didn't. So languages tend to go that way. They call it harmonic. So it was observed a long time ago, without the explanation, by a guy called Joseph Greenberg, who's a famous typologist from Stanford. He observed a lot of generalizations about how word order works, and these are some of the harmonic generalizations that he observed.