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Linguistic laws in biology [PDF]
Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Linguistic laws, the common statistical patterns of human language, have been investigated by quantitative linguists for nearly a century. Recently, biologists from a range of disciplines have started to explore the prevalence of these laws beyond language, finding patterns consistent with linguistic laws across multiple levels of biological ...
Stuart Semple +2 more
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On the physical origin of linguistic laws and lognormality in speech [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Physical manifestations of linguistic units include sources of variability due to factors of speech production which are by definition excluded from counts of linguistic symbols.
Iván G. Torre +4 more
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Linguistic laws in chimpanzee gestural communication [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2019 Studies testing linguistic laws outside language have provided important insights into the organization of biological systems. For example, patterns consistent with Zipf's law of abbreviation (which predicts a negative relationship between word length and frequency of use) have been found in the vocal and non-vocal behaviour of a range of animals, and ...
Raphaela Heesen +2 more
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Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 AbstractLinguistic laws constitute one of the quantitative cornerstones of modern cognitive sciences and have been routinely investigated in written corpora, or in the equivalent transcription of oral corpora. This means that inferences of statistical patterns of language in acoustics are biased by the arbitrary, language-dependent segmentation of the ...
Torre IG +4 more
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Linguistic Laws in Speech: The Case of Catalan and Spanish [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2019 In this work we consider Glissando Corpus—an oral corpus of Catalan and Spanish—and empirically analyze the presence of the four classical linguistic laws (Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, Brevity law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law) in oral communication, and further complement this with the analysis of two recently formulated laws: lognormality law and size ...
Hernández-Fernández A +3 more
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Zebra finches transform manipulated songs with shuffled syllables to exhibit linguistic laws [PDF]
Animal CognitionLinguistic laws are increasingly used as markers of efficiency in non-human communication, but it remains unclear how rapidly these patterns can emerge.
Mason Youngblood
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Investigating Menzerath’s law in crows and humans during cued vocal ‘counting’ [PDF]
Animal CognitionTo uncover universal principles of vocal behavior, studies have examined whether linguistic laws apply across species. Menzerath’s law, for instance, posits that larger constructs have shorter constituent parts, reflecting an efficiency principle that ...
Diana A. Liao +3 more
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Linguistic Hypersoft Set with Application to Multi-Criteria Decision-Making to Enhance Rural Health Services [PDF]
Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, 2023 Language, as an abstract system and a creative act, possesses inherent complexity due to its contextual nature and the variability of its meaning. The context of language is shaped by an individual's empirical knowledge, derived from observation and ...
Muhammad Saqlain +2 more
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Systems, 2022 To evaluate fuzzy information precisely, researchers and practitioners are apt to use linguistic variables to model vague or uncertain contexts in natural language.
Lijuan Yao, Zhihong Yi
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Scaling in words on Twitter [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Scaling properties of language are a useful tool for understanding generative processes in texts. We investigate the scaling relations in citywise Twitter corpora coming from the metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas of the United States.
Eszter Bokányi +2 more
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