• 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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      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 ...
    • On the physical origin of linguistic laws and lognormality in speech 

      González Torre, Iván; Luque Serrano, Bartolome; Lacasa, Lucas; Kello, Christopher; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (2019-08-21)
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      Physical manifestations of linguistic units include sources of variability due to factors of speech production which are by definition excluded from counts of linguistic symbols. In this work, we examine whether linguistic ...
    • The normal distribution in some constrained sample spaces 

      Mateu Figueras, Gloria; Pawlowsky Glahn, Vera; Egozcue Rubí, Juan José (2013-01-01)
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      Phenomena with a constrained sample space appear frequently in practice. This is the case, for example, with strictly positive data, or with compositional data, such as percentages or proportions. If the natural measure ...