Table 6.

Determiner-to-noun distance distribution

		Distance from determiner to head noun In words
		0	1	2	3	4	≥ 5
Sg	‘this’	0.883	0.088	0.022	0.005	0.001	0.001
	‘that’	0.856	0.112	0.023	0.006	0.002	0.001
	mean	0.870	0.100	0.023	0.005	0.002	0.001
Pl	‘these’	0.777	0.165	0.042	0.010	0.002	0.004
	‘those’	0.783	0.162	0.040	0.010	0.003	0.001
	mean	0.780	0.164	0.041	0.010	0.003	0.003

Note. Proportions represent the average proportions of the number of DPs in each number (Sg, Pl) and type (‘this’/‘these’; ‘that’/‘those’) across 50 samples (N = 1000, for each determiner type, drawn from Gigaword). In all cases, standard error is no greater than 0.002.