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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…
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…
The risks of mixing dependency lengths from sequences of different length
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Haitao Liu
Mixing dependency lengths from sequences of different length is a common practice in language research. However, the empirical distribution of dependency lengths of sentences of th…