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20092022
most citedThe Structure of Phonological Networks Across Multiple Languages

110 citations · 180 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

cs.CL2022★ 5 cited

Cognitive modelling with multilayer networks: Insights, advancements and future challenges

Massimo Stella, Salvatore Citraro, Giulio Rossetti +3

The mental lexicon is a complex cognitive system representing information about the words/concepts that one knows. Decades of psychological experiments have shown that conceptual a…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Feature-rich multiplex lexical networks reveal mental strategies of early language learning

Salvatore Citraro, Michael S. Vitevitch, Massimo Stella +1

Knowledge in the human mind exhibits a dualistic vector/network nature. Modelling words as vectors is key to natural language processing, whereas networks of word associations can…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 2 cited

Cognitive networks identify the content of English and Italian popular posts about COVID-19 vaccines: Anticipation, logistics, conspiracy and loss of trust

Massimo Stella, Michael S. Vitevitch, Federico Botta

Monitoring social discourse about COVID-19 vaccines is key to understanding how large populations perceive vaccination campaigns. We focus on 4765 unique popular tweets in English…

cs.CL2017★ 60 cited

The origins of Zipf's meaning-frequency law

Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Michael S. Vitevitch

In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf observed that more frequent words tend to have more meanings, and showed that the number of meanings of a word grows as the square root of it…

physics.soc-ph2009★ 110 cited

The Structure of Phonological Networks Across Multiple Languages

Samuel Arbesman, Steven H. Strogatz, Michael S. Vitevitch

The network characteristics based on the phonological similarities in the lexicons of several languages were examined. These languages differed widely in their history and linguist…