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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…
Dependency length minimization: Puzzles and Promises
Haitao Liu, Chunshan Xu, Junying Liang
In the recent issue of PNAS, Futrell et al. claims that their study of 37 languages gives the first large scale cross-language evidence for Dependency Length Minimization, which is…
The influence of Chunking on Dependency Crossing and Distance
Qian Lu, Chunshan Xu, Haitao Liu
This paper hypothesizes that chunking plays important role in reducing dependency distance and dependency crossings. Computer simulations, when compared with natural languages,show…