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Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan
Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-Cancho +2
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning d…
Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language
Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català +2
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. The most popular is Zipf…
The polysemy of the words that children learn over time
Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho +2
Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learning in children. Words of low polysemy could be preferred as they reduce the disambiguation effort for the li…
The infochemical core
Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Vocalizations and less often gestures have been the object of linguistic research over decades. However, the development of a general theory of communication with human language as…
Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice
Ivan Gonzalez Torre, Bartolo Luque, Lucas Lacasa +2
Linguistic laws constitute one of the quantitative cornerstones of modern cognitive sciences and have been routinely investigated in written corpora, or in the equivalent transcrip…
Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior
R. Ferrer-i-Cancho, A. Hernández-Fernández, D. Lusseau +3
A key aim in biology and psychology is to identify fundamental principles underpinning the behavior of animals, including humans. Analyses of human language and the behavior of a r…
When is Menzerath-Altmann law mathematically trivial? A new approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries +2
Menzerath's law, the tendency of Z, the mean size of the parts, to decrease as X, the number of parts, increases is found in language, music and genomes. Recently, it has been argu…
The challenges of statistical patterns of language: the case of Menzerath's law in genomes
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns, Antoni Hernández-Fernández +2
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's law is perhaps the most popular case, recently, Menzerath's law has begun to be in…
The failure of the law of brevity in two New World primates. Statistical caveats
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
Parallels of Zipf's law of brevity, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, have been found in bottlenose dolphins and Formosan macaques. Although these findings suggest…
The parameters of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes
Jaume Baixeries, Antoni Hernandez-Fernandez, Nuria Forns +1
The relationship between the size of the whole and the size of the parts in language and music is known to follow Menzerath-Altmann law at many levels of description (morphemes, wo…