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physics.soc-ph2013★ 43 cited
The Biological Origin of Linguistic Diversity
Andrea Baronchelli, Nick Chater, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras +1
In contrast with animal communication systems, diversity is characteristic of almost every aspect of human language. Languages variously employ tones, clicks, or manual signs to si…
physics.soc-ph2013★ 50 cited
The hypothesis of urban scaling: formalization, implications and challenges
Luis M. A. Bettencourt, Jose Lobo, Hyejin Youn
There is strong expectation that cities, across time, culture and level of development, share much in common in terms of their form and function. Recently, attempts to formalize ma…