4 papers
A Data-free Universal Prior over Syntactic Structures
Ferm\'ın Moscoso del Prado Mart\'ın
Probability is fundamental to theories of language comprehension, production, acquisition, and evolution, as well as to large language models. Existing theories estimate the probab…
Modelling the Diachronic Emergence of Phoneme Frequency Distributions
Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín, Suchir Salhan
Phoneme frequency distributions exhibit robust statistical regularities across languages, including exponential-tailed rank-frequency patterns and a negative relationship between p…
Measuring Grammatical Diversity from Small Corpora: Derivational Entropy Rates, Mean Length of Utterances, and Annotation Invariance
Fermin Moscoso del Prado Martin
In many fields, such as language acquisition, neuropsychology of language, the study of aging, and historical linguistics, corpora are used for estimating the diversity of grammati…
Universal Topological Regularity of Syntactic Structures
Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín
Despite their widespread use, the principles governing the organisation of syntactic dependency trees remain poorly understood. I analyse dependency trees from 124 typologically, g…