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    • José María de Oleza Arredondo, S.J. (1887-1975) 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (RAM-Verlag, 2018-05)
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      A short piece on the life of José María de Oleza Arredondo S.J., one of the founders of Quantitative Linguistics in Catalonia
    • Linguistic laws in speech: The case of Catalan and Spanish 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; González Torre, Iván; Garrido Almiñana, Juan Maria; Lacasa, Lucas (MDPI, 2020-08)
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      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 ...
    • Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio; González Torre, Iván; Garrido, Juan Maria; Lacasa, Lucas (2019-11-26)
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      Accés obert
      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 ...
    • Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Lusseau, David; McCowan, Brenda (De Gruyter, 2022-06)
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      Dolphins exhibit striking similarities with humans. Here we review them with the help of quantitative linguistics and information theory. Various statistical laws of language that are well-known in quantitative linguistics, ...
    • Qualitative and quantitative examples of natural and artificial phenomena 

      Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2021-08)
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      The dichotomy between the qualitative and the quantitative has been a classic throughout the history of science. As will be seen, this dichotomy permeates all ontological levels of reality. In this work, phenomenological ...
    • Speech pause distribution as an early marker for Alzheimer’s disease 

      Pastoriza-Domínguez, Patricia; González Torre, Ivan; Diéguez-Vide, Faustino; Gómez Ruiz, María Isabel; Geladó Muñoz, Sandra; Bello-López, Joan; Ávila-Rivera, Asunción; Matías-Guiu, Jordi; Pytel Córdoba, Vanesa; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2022-01)
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      Background: Pause duration analysis is a common feature in the study of discourse in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) since this patient group has shown a consistent trend for longer pauses in comparison to healthy controls. This ...
    • The advent and fall of a vocabulary learning bias from communicative efficiency 

      Carrera Casado, David; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (Springer, 2021-11-26)
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      Biosemiosis is a process of choice-making between simultaneously alternative options. It is well-known that, when sufficiently young children encounter a new word, they tend to interpret it as pointing to a meaning that ...
    • The linear arrangement library: A new tool for research on syntactic dependency structures 

      Alemany Puig, Lluís; Esteban Ángeles, Juan Luis; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022)
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      The new and growing field of Quantitative Dependency Syntax has emerged at the crossroads between Dependency Syntax and Quantitative Linguistics. One of the main concerns in this field is the statistical patterns of syntactic ...
    • The polysemy of the words that children learn over time 

      Casas Fernández, Bernardino; Catala Roig, Neus; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Hernández Fernández, Antonio; Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume (2018-12)
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      Here we study polysemy as a potential learning bias in vocabulary learning in children. We employ a massive set of transcriptions of conversations between children and adults in English, to analyze the evolution of mean ...
    • The self-organization of genomes 

      Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Forns Fradera, Núria (2010-05)
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      Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes ...
    • Thoughts about disordered thinking: measuring and quantifying the laws of order and disorder 

      Elvevaag, Brita; Foltz, Peter W.; Rosenstein, Mark; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Deyne, Simon De; Mizraji, Eduardo; Cohen, Alex (2017-05-01)
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    • Zipf’s laws of meaning in Catalan 

      Catala Roig, Neus; Baixeries i Juvillà, Jaume; Ferrer Cancho, Ramon; Padró, Lluís; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2021-12-16)
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      In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning distribution, relating the frequency of a ...