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The polysemy of the words that children learn over time
Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho +2
Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learning in children. Words of low polysemy could be preferred as they reduce the disambiguation effort for the li…
Compression and the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Here we sketch a new derivation of Zipf's law for word frequencies based on optimal coding. The structure of the derivation is reminiscent of Mandelbrot's random typing model but i…
Kauffman's adjacent possible in word order evolution
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Word order evolution has been hypothesized to be constrained by a word order permutation ring: transitions involving orders that are closer in the permutation ring are more likely.…
The scarcity of crossing dependencies: a direct outcome of a specific constraint?
Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The structure of a sentence can be represented as a network where vertices are words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies. Interestingly, crossing syntactic dependencies have…