Claim · bf1e00b1 · from Dependency-length minimization is pervasive across UD v2.15 (148/156 languages)
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The 8 languages not showing significant minimization are all small or structurally atypical treebanks (e.g. Tagalog-TRG, Telugu-MTG, Hittite-HitTB, Gwichin, Cebuano) dominated by short elicited or grammar-book sentences; German-HDT is a low but still-significant outlier (Omega-bar~0.16) attributable to that treebank's automatic conversion.
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Evidence
inference
Per-language rows: non-significant set has ratio ~0.95-1.12 and small n or short-sentence corpora; German uses UD_German-HDT.
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