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The origins of Zipf's meaning-frequency law
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Michael S. Vitevitch
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf observed that more frequent words tend to have more meanings, and showed that the number of meanings of a word grows as the square root of it…
A dependency look at the reality of constituency
Xinying Chen, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
A comment on "Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building during sentence processing" by Nelson et al (2017), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114(1…
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…
Towards a theory of word order. Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al
The placement of the head that maximizes predictability. An information theoretic approach
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The minimization of the length of syntactic dependencies is a well-established principle of word order and the basis of a mathematical theory of word order. Here we complete that t…
Are crossing dependencies really scarce?
Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gomez-Rodriguez, J. L. Esteban
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be modelled as a tree, where vertices correspond to words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies. It has been claimed recurrently that…