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Syntactic language change in English and German: Metrics, parsers, and convergences.

PLoS One · 2026 · PMC13123979 · PMID 42048401

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We show a clear trend of shorter sentences appearing more frequently in later periods, consequently, the average sentence length per decade is decreasing over time.

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