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Reply to the commentary "Be careful when assuming the obvious", by P. Alday
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Here we respond to some comments by Alday concerning headedness in linguistic theory and the validity of the assumptions of a mathematical model for word order. For brevity, we foc…
Optimization models of natural communication
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
A family of information theoretic models of communication was introduced more than a decade ago to explain the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies. The family is a based on…
A stronger null hypothesis for crossing dependencies
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be modeled as a tree where vertices are words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies between words. It is well-known that those edges n…
Non-crossing dependencies: least effort, not grammar
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The use of null hypotheses (in a statistical sense) is common in hard sciences but not in theoretical linguistics. Here the null hypothesis that the low frequency of syntactic depe…
The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
According to Zipf's meaning-frequency law, words that are more frequent tend to have more meanings. Here it is shown that a linear dependency between the frequency of a form and it…
Beyond description. Comment on "Approaching human language with complex networks" by Cong & Liu
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Comment on "Approaching human language with complex networks" by Cong & Liu