Search Results for author: Bernardino Casas

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Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language

no code implementations27 Mar 2019 Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries

The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws.

The polysemy of the words that children learn over time

no code implementations27 Nov 2016 Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries

However, such preference could be a side-effect of another bias: the preference of children for nouns in combination with the lower polysemy of nouns with respect to other part-of-speech categories.

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