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When is Menzerath-Altmann law mathematically trivial? A new approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries +2
Menzerath's law, the tendency of Z, the mean size of the parts, to decrease as X, the number of parts, increases is found in language, music and genomes. Recently, it has been argu…
Information content versus word length in random typing
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín
Recently, it has been claimed that a linear relationship between a measure of information content and word length is expected from word length optimization and it has been shown th…
A practical recipe to fit discrete power-law distributions
Alvaro Corral, Anna Deluca, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Power laws pervade statistical physics and complex systems, but, traditionally, researchers in these fields have paid little attention to properly fit these distributions. Who has…
The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations
Stuart Semple, Minna J. Hsu, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy +1
Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and w…
The challenges of statistical patterns of language: the case of Menzerath's law in genomes
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns, Antoni Hernández-Fernández +2
The importance of statistical patterns of language has been debated over decades. Although Zipf's law is perhaps the most popular case, recently, Menzerath's law has begun to be in…
The span of correlations in dolphin whistle sequences
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Brenda McCowan
Long-range correlations are found in symbolic sequences from human language, music and DNA. Determining the span of correlations in dolphin whistle sequences is crucial for sheddin…