• A statistical model from information theory to explain Zipf's law of brevity 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; González Torre, Iván; Lacasa, Lucas; Kello, Christopher; Luque Serrano, Bartolome (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2019)
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      Brevity and frequency are two crucial factors in the processes of statistical learning. The compression principle had already been used previously to explain the origin of Zipf’s law for the frequency of words. Here we use ...
    • Testing the robustness of laws of polysemy and brevity versus frequency 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Casas Fernández, Bernardino; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume (Springer, 2016)
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      The pioneering research of G.K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws. Here we focus on a couple of them: the meaning-frequency law, i.e. ...