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Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited
Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell +3
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potentia…
The distribution of syntactic dependency distances
Sonia Petrini, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be represented as a graph, where vertices are words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies between them. In this setting, the distance…
The optimality of word lengths. Theoretical foundations and an empirical study
Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell +3
Zipf's law of abbreviation, namely the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, has been viewed as a manifestation of compression, i.e. the minimization of the length of form…