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Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]

, 2018
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
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Does Scale-Free Syntactic Network Emerge in Second Language Learning?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Language is a complex system during whose operation many properties may emerge spontaneously. Using complex network approach, existing studies have found that, in first language (L1) acquisition, syntactic complex network featuring the scale-free and the
Jingyang Jiang, Wuzhe Yu, Haitao Liu, Haitao Liu, Haitao Liu   +4 more
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The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies

Entropy, 2020
An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly formulated, and, more importantly, there is no unified framework ...
Álvaro Corral, Isabel Serra
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]

, 2019
In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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Principle of Least Effort and Sentence Length in Public Speaking

Entropy, 2021
The analysis of sentence lengths in the inaugural speeches of US presidents and the annual speeches of UK party leaders is carried out. Transcripts of the speeches are used, rather than the oral production.
Natalia L. Tsizhmovska, Leonid M. Martyushev   +1 more
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Thoughts about disordered thinking: measuring and quantifying the laws of order and disorder [PDF]

, 2017
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Cohen, Alex, Deyne, Simon De, Elvevaag, Brita, Ferrer Cancho, Ramon, Foltz, Peter W., Mizraji, Eduardo, Rosenstein, Mark   +6 more
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Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond

Stats, 2021
We suggest two approaches to the statistical analysis of texts, both based on the study of numerals occurrence in literary texts. The first approach is related to Benford’s Law and the analysis of the frequency distribution of various leading digits of ...
Andrei V. Zenkov
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Dataglove Measurement of Joint Angles in Sign Language Handshapes [PDF]

, 2012
In sign language research, we understand little about articulatory factors involved in shaping phonemic boundaries or the amount (and articulatory nature) of acceptable phonetic variation between handshapes.
Bour, Rebecca, Eccarius, Petra, Scheidt, Robert A.   +2 more
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The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations [PDF]

, 2012
Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated.
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy, Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon, Hsu, Minna J., Semple, Stuart   +3 more
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]

, 2016
Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska, Doğruöz, A. Seza, Nguyen, Dong, Rosé, Carolyn P.   +3 more
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