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Linguistic laws in biology
Stuart Semple, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Morgan L. Gustison
Linguistic laws, the common statistical patterns of human language, have been investigated by quantitative linguists for nearly a century. Recently, biologists from a range of disc…
Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited
Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell +3
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potentia…
Anti dependency distance minimization in short sequences. A graph theoretic approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
Dependency distance minimization (DDm) is a word order principle favouring the placement of syntactically related words close to each other in sentences. Massive evidence of the pr…
Optimal coding and the origins of Zipfian laws
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Christian Bentz, Caio Seguin
The problem of compression in standard information theory consists of assigning codes as short as possible to numbers. Here we consider the problem of optimal coding -- under an ar…
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…
Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator
Antoni Lozano, Bernardino Casas, Chris Bentz +1
Entropy is a fundamental property of a repertoire. Here, we present an efficient algorithm to estimate the entropy of types with the help of Zhang's estimator. The algorithm takes…