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The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analysing mean call durations
dc.contributor.author | Semple, Stuart |
dc.contributor.author | Hsu, Minna J. |
dc.contributor.author | Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy |
dc.contributor.author | Ferrer Cancho, Ramon |
dc.contributor.other | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-02-13T11:11:04Z |
dc.date.available | 2020-02-13T11:11:04Z |
dc.date.issued | 2013-07-04 |
dc.identifier.citation | Semple, S. [et al.]. The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analysing mean call durations. "Journal of quantitative linguistics", 4 Juliol 2013, vol. 20, núm. 3, p. 209-217. |
dc.identifier.issn | 0929-6174 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2117/177621 |
dc.description.abstract | Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated. Here the recent finding of patterning consistent with the law of brevity in Formosan macaque vocal communication (Semple, Hsu, & Agoramoorthy, 2010) is revisited. It is shown that the negative correlation between mean duration and frequency of use in the vocalizations of Formosan macaques is not an artefact of the use of a mean duration for each call type instead of the customary ‘word’ length of studies of the law in human language. The key point demonstrated is that the total duration of calls of a particular type increases with the number of calls of that type. The finding of the law of brevity in the vocalizations of these macaques therefore defies a trivial explanation. |
dc.format.extent | 9 p. |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.subject | Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural |
dc.subject.lcsh | Computational linguistics |
dc.subject.other | Law of brevity |
dc.subject.other | Word length |
dc.subject.other | Word frequency |
dc.subject.other | Formosan macaques |
dc.title | The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analysing mean call durations |
dc.type | Article |
dc.subject.lemac | Lingüística computacional |
dc.contributor.group | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GPLN - Grup de Processament del Llenguatge Natural |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/09296174.2013.799917 |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed |
dc.relation.publisherversion | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09296174.2013.799917#.UnDMzlPfn1A |
dc.rights.access | Open Access |
local.identifier.drac | 12824792 |
dc.description.version | Postprint (author's final draft) |
local.citation.author | Semple, S.; Hsu, M. J.; Agoramoorthy, G.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. |
local.citation.publicationName | Journal of quantitative linguistics |
local.citation.volume | 20 |
local.citation.number | 3 |
local.citation.startingPage | 209 |
local.citation.endingPage | 217 |
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