# Towards a theory of word order. Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04872 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.04872/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 15 Jun 2017.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Dependency distance minimization predicts compression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.08900/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al