Exploració per tema "Linguistic universals"
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Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior
(Wiley, 2013)
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Accés obertA key aim in biology and psychology is to identify fundamental principles underpinning the behavior of animals, including humans. Analyses of human language and the behavior of a range of non-human animal species have ... -
Some limits of standard linguistic typology: the case of Cysouw's models for the frequencies of the six possible orderings of S, V and O
(2008)
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Accés obertThis article is a critical analysis of Michael Cysouw's comment "Linear order as a predictor of word order regularities". -
Some word order biases from limited brain resources: A mathematical approach
(2008)
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Accés obertIn this paper, we propose a mathematical framework for studying word order optimization. The framework relies on the well-known positive correlation between cognitive cost and the Euclidean distance between the elements ... -
The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication
(2016-10-10)
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Accés obertAccording to Zipf’s meaning-frequency law, words that are more frequent tend to have more meanings. Here it is shown that a linear dependency between the frequency of a form and its number of meanings is found in a family ...