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The Distribution of Dependency Distance and Hierarchical Distance in Contemporary Written Japanese and Its Influencing Factors
Linxuan Wang, Shuiyuan Yu
To explore the relationship between dependency distance (DD) and hierarchical distance (HD) in Japanese, we compared the probability distributions of DD and HD with and without sen…
Statistical patterns of word frequency suggesting the probabilistic nature of human languages
Shuiyuan Yu, Chunshan Xu, Haitao Liu
Traditional linguistic theories have largely regard language as a formal system composed of rigid rules. However, their failures in processing real language, the recent successes i…
Zipf's law in 50 languages: its structural pattern, linguistic interpretation, and cognitive motivation
Shuiyuan Yu, Chunshan Xu, Haitao Liu
Zipf's law has been found in many human-related fields, including language, where the frequency of a word is persistently found as a power law function of its frequency rank, known…
The distribution of information content in English sentences
Shuiyuan Yu, Jin Cong, Junying Liang +1
Sentence is a basic linguistic unit, however, little is known about how information content is distributed across different positions of a sentence. Based on authentic language dat…
Existence of Hierarchies and Human's Pursuit of Top Hierarchy Lead to Power Law
Shuiyuan Yu, Junying Liang, Haitao Liu
The power law is ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena, and is considered as a universal relationship between the frequency and its rank for diverse social systems. However, a…