# Ferrer-i-Cancho 2021: Dependency distance minimization predicts compression

> Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, 2021. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The emerging-methods survey lists it with the…

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# Dependency distance minimization predicts compression

Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, 2021. _arXiv_.

A preprint arguing that keeping syntactically related words close together also makes sentences more compressible.

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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R., & Gómez-Rodríguez, C. (2021). Dependency distance minimization predicts compression. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.08900
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