Browsing by Author "Kello, Christopher"
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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)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyBrevity 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 ... -
Log-normal distribution in acoustic linguistic units
González Torre, Iván; Lacasa, Lucas; Kello, Christopher; Luque Serrano, Bartolome; Hernández Fernández, Antonio (Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyIn this work we verify with accuracy that acoustically transcribed durations of linguistic units at several scales (phonemes, words and Breath Groups) comply with log-normal distribution. To do this we have used a very ... -
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)
Article
Open AccessPhysical 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 ...