This work focuses on explaining both grammatical universals of word order and quantitative
word-order preferences in usage by means of a simple efficiency principle: dependency …

The choice associated with words is a fundamental property of natural languages. It lies at
the heart of quantitative linguistics, computational linguistics and language sciences more …

The cuffless blood pressure (BP) measurement allows for frequent measurement without
discomfort to the patient compared to the cuff inflation measurement. With the availability of a …

1.1 Aims For nearly hundred years, researchers have noticed how language ubiquitously
follows certain mathematical properties. These properties differ from linguistic universals that …

A well-known effect in speech production is that more predictable linguistic constructions
tend to be reduced. Recent work has interpreted this effect in an information-theoretic …

The minimization of the length of syntactic dependencies is a well-established principle of
word order and the basis of a mathematical theory of word order. Here we complete that …

Languages carry information. To fulfil this purpose, they employ a multitude of coding
strategies. This book explores a core property of linguistic coding–called lexical diversity …

Hiermit erkläre ich, die vorliegende Habilitationsschrift selbständig und ohne unerlaubte
fremde Hilfe angefertigt zu haben. Ich habe keine anderen als die im Schriftenverzeichnis …

According to the UNIFORM INFORMATION DENSITY (UID) hypothesis (Levy and Jaeger,
2007; Jaeger, 2010), speakers tend to distribute information density across the signal …

The use of null hypotheses (in a statistical sense) is common in hard sciences but not in
theoretical linguistics. Here the null hypothesis that the low frequency of syntactic …