{
  "creator": [
    "Medeiros, David P."
  ],
  "date": [
    "2008-09-23"
  ],
  "description": [
    "This article claims that some familiar properties of phrase structure reflect laws of form. It is shown that optimal sequencing of recursive Merge operations so as to dynamically minimize c-command and containment relations in unlabeled branching forms leads to structural correlates of projection. Thus, a tendency for syntactic structures to pattern according to the X-bar schema (or other shapes exhibiting endocentricity and maximality of ‘non-head daughters’) is plausibly an emergent epiphenomenon of efficient computation. The specifier-head-complement configuration of X-bar theory is shown to be intimately connected to the Fibonacci sequence, suggesting connections with similar mathematical properties in optimal arboration and optimal packing elsewhere in nature."
  ],
  "format": [
    "application/pdf"
  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8639",
    "10.5964/bioling.8639"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://bioling.psychopen.eu/index.php/bioling/article/view/8639/7831"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Biolinguistics; Vol. 2 No. 2-3 (2008); 152-195",
    "1450-3417",
    "10.5964/bioling.v2i2-3"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "c-command",
    "minimalism",
    "phyllotaxis",
    "projection",
    "X-bar Theory",
    "P"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Optimal Growth in Phrase Structure"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion",
    "Peer-reviewed Article",
    "Theoretical"
  ]
}