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The word order of different language types has different syntactic arrangement. Under the framework of dependency syntax, the change of constituent position in a sentence directly affects the size of dependency distance. Based on the general rule of word order in different language types, this paper makes a quantitative analysis of the reasons from the perspective of dependency distance. It is found that: First, the general rule that SVO has a smaller mean dependency distance than SOV cannot be obtained when considering the additional constituent of sentences. Second, in the dative-accusative construction of Korean, the “long-before-short” order is more preferred. Finally, the mean dependency distance has nothing to do with the specific constituents before the root verb, but only with its ordering rules.
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Hua, Y., Li, J., Bi, Y. (2023). Research on Korean “Long-Before-Short” Preference from the Perspective of Dependency Distance. In: Su, Q., Xu, G., Yang, X. (eds) Chinese Lexical Semantics. CLSW 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13496. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28956-9_11
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