no code implementations • 17 Mar 2023 • Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell, Mengxue Wang, Chris Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Zipf's law of abbreviation, the tendency of more frequent words to be shorter, is one of the most solid candidates for a linguistic universal, in the sense that it has the potential for being exceptionless or with a number of exceptions that is vanishingly small compared to the number of languages on Earth.
no code implementations • 26 Jul 2017 • Antoni Lozano, Bernardino Casas, Chris Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
Entropy is a fundamental property of a repertoire.