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03/17/2023
Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be sh...
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11/26/2022
The distribution of syntactic dependency distances
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be represented as a graph wher...
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08/22/2022
The optimality of word lengths. Theoretical foundations and an empirical study
One of the most robust patterns found in human languages is Zipf's law o...
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07/12/2022
Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in planar linearizations of trees
Dependency graphs have proven to be a very successful model to represent...
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06/14/2022
The Maximum Linear Arrangement Problem for trees under projectivity and planarity
The Maximum Linear Arrangement problem (MaxLA) consists of finding a map...
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12/05/2021
The Linear Arrangement Library. A new tool for research on syntactic dependency structures
The new and growing field of Quantitative Dependency Syntax has emerged ...
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09/18/2021
Dependency distance minimization predicts compression
Dependency distance minimization (DDm) is a well-established principle o...
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07/07/2021
Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in random projective linearizations of trees
The syntactic structure of a sentence is often represented using syntact...
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05/24/2021
The advent and fall of a vocabulary learning bias from communicative efficiency
It is well-known that, when sufficiently young children encounter a new ...
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02/05/2021
Minimum projective linearizations of trees in linear time
The minimum linear arrangement problem (MLA) consists of finding a mappi...
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07/30/2020
The optimality of syntactic dependency distances
It is often stated that human languages, as other biological systems, ar...
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06/24/2020
The variation of the sum of edge lengths in linear arrangements of trees
A fundamental problem in network science is the normalization of the top...
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03/06/2020
Reappraising the distribution of the number of edge crossings of graphs on a sphere
Many real transportation and mobility networks have their vertices place...
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03/06/2020
Fast calculation of the variance of edge crossings in random linear arrangements
The interest in spatial networks where vertices are embedded in a one-di...
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10/09/2019
Edge crossings in random linear arrangements
In spatial networks, vertices are arranged in some space and edges may c...
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08/19/2019
Memory limitations are hidden in grammar
The ability to produce and understand an unlimited number of different s...
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06/13/2019
Anti dependency distance minimization in short sequences. A graph theoretic approach
Dependency distance minimization (DDm) is a word order principle favouri...
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06/04/2019
Optimal coding and the origins of Zipfian laws
The problem of compression in standard information theory consists of as...
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03/27/2019
Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language
The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word f...
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12/30/2017
The origins of Zipf's meaning-frequency law
In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf observed that more frequent words...
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08/24/2017
A dependency look at the reality of constituency
A comment on "Neurophysiological dynamics of phrase-structure building d...
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07/26/2017
Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator
Entropy is a fundamental property of a repertoire. Here, we present an e...
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06/15/2017
Towards a theory of word order. Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al
Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns...
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05/28/2017
The placement of the head that maximizes predictability. An information theoretic approach
The minimization of the length of syntactic dependencies is a well-estab...
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03/24/2017
Are crossing dependencies really scarce?
The syntactic structure of a sentence can be modelled as a tree, where v...
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11/27/2016
The polysemy of the words that children learn over time
Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learni...
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10/18/2016
The infochemical core
Vocalizations and less often gestures have been the object of linguistic...
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05/04/2016
Compression and the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies
Here we sketch a new derivation of Zipf's law for word frequencies based...
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01/13/2016
The scarcity of crossing dependencies: a direct outcome of a specific constraint?
The structure of a sentence can be represented as a network where vertic...
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12/17/2015
Kauffman's adjacent possible in word order evolution
Word order evolution has been hypothesized to be constrained by a word o...
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09/09/2015
Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century
A commentary on the article "Large-scale evidence of dependency length m...
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09/05/2015
A commentary on "The now-or-never bottleneck: a fundamental constraint on language", by Christiansen and Chater (2016)
In a recent article, Christiansen and Chater (2016) present a fundamenta...
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08/26/2015
Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths
The syntactic structure of sentences exhibits a striking regularity: dep...
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12/22/2014
Reply to the commentary "Be careful when assuming the obvious", by P. Alday
Here we respond to some comments by Alday concerning headedness in lingu...
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12/08/2014