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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…
The infochemical core
Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Vocalizations and less often gestures have been the object of linguistic research over decades. However, the development of a general theory of communication with human language as…
Forward-backward SDEs with distributional coefficients
Elena Issoglio, Shuai Jing
Forward-backward stochastic differential equations (FBSDEs) have attracted significant attention since they were introduced almost 30 years ago, due to their wide range of applicat…
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…
The scaling of the minimum sum of edge lengths in uniformly random trees
Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
The minimum linear arrangement problem on a network consists of finding the minimum sum of edge lengths that can be achieved when the vertices are arranged linearly. Although there…
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.…