Exploració per tema "Quantitative linguistics"
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José María de Oleza Arredondo, S.J. (1887-1975)
(RAM-Verlag, 2018-05)
Article
Accés obertA 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
(MDPI, 2020-08)
Capítol de llibre
Accés obertIn 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
(2019-11-26)
Article
Accés obertIn 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
(De Gruyter, 2022-06)
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Accés obertDolphins 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
(2021-08)
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Accés obertThe 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
(2022-01)
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Accés restringit per política de l'editorialBackground: 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
(Springer, 2021-11-26)
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Accés obertBiosemiosis 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
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022)
Comunicació de congrés
Accés obertThe 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
(2018-12)
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Accés obertHere 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
(2010-05)
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Accés obertMenzerath-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
(2017-05-01)
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Zipf’s laws of meaning in Catalan
(Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2021-12-16)
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Accés obertIn 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 ...