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

8214.258 - 8236.274 Edward Gibson

Yeah. Well, dependency length is really about memory, right? I think that's like about sort of what's easier or harder to produce in some way. And these other ideas are about sort of robustness to communication. So the problem of potential loss of signal due to noise. So there may be aspects of word order, which is somewhat optimized for that. And we have this one guess in that direction.