What is it about?
Using graph theory, this paper performs calculation to reveal a mathematical reason as to why a linguistic structure is binary.
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Why is it important?
Linguists have accumulated empirical evidence that a linguistic tree is binary. This paper adds a mathematical reason.
Perspectives
This paper is a contribution to integrate linguistics with mathematics.
Koji Arikawa
St. Andrew's (Momoyama Gakuin) University
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This page is a summary of: Why Binary Merge?, Journal of Cognitive Science, December 2016, Institute for Cognitive Science,
DOI: 10.17791/jcs.2016.17.4.499.
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