Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2008). Network theory. In: The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences, Colm Hogan, P. (ed.). Cambridge University Press. In press.
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Díaz-Guilera, A. (2007). The global minima of the communicative energy of natural communication systems. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P06009.
[ doi: 10.1088/1742-5468/2007/06/P06009 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Hernández Fernández, A. (2008). Power laws and the golden number. In: “Problems of text analysis”, Kelih, E., Levickij, V. & Altmann, G. (eds.). Accepted.
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2007). Discrete mathematics of distance and crossings in syntactic dependency trees. Submitted.
Ferrer i Cancho, R., Capocci, A. & Caldarelli, G. (2007). Spectral methods cluster words of the same class in a syntactic dependency network.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 17 (7), in press.
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2006). La
llengua i el gènere (Cartes del lector) El
Periódico de Catalunya, dimecres 6 de desembre.Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2006). Why do syntactic links not cross? Europhysics Letters 76 1228-1235.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Lusseau, D. (2006). Long-term correlations in the surface behavior of dolphins. Europhysics Letters 74, 1095-1101.
[ doi: 10.1209/epl/i2005-10596-9 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2006). On the universality of Zipf's law for word frequencies. In: "Exact methods in the study of language and text. In honor of Gabriel Altmann", Grzybek, P. & Köhler,R. (eds.) 131-140. Berlin: Gruyter.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005). The structure of syntactic dependency networks: insights from recent advances in network theory. In: "The problems of quantitative linguistics", Altmann, G., Levickij, V. & Perebyinis, V. (eds.). Chernivtsi: Ruta. pp. 60-75.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2006). When language breaks into pieces. A conflict between communication through isolated signals and language. Biosystems 84, 242-253.
[ doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2005.12.001 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005). Hidden communication aspects in the exponent of Zipf's law. Glottometrics 11, 96-117.
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005). Zipf's law from a communicative phase transition. European Physical Journal B 47, 449-457.
[ doi: 10.1140/epjb/e2005-00340-y ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Servedio, V.D.P. (2005). Can simple models explain Zipf's law in all cases? Glottometrics 11, 1-8.
Ferrer i Cancho, R., Riordan, O. & Bollobás, B. (2005). The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 272, 561-565.
[ doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2957 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005). The variation of Zipf's law in human language. European Physical Journal B 44, 249-257.
[ doi: 10.1140/epjb/e2005-00121-8 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005). Decoding least effort and scaling in signal frequency distributions. Physica A 345, 275-284.
[ doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2004.06.158 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2004) Sobre la singularitat del llenguatge humà.
El Temps, no 1041. Del 25 al 31
de maig del 2004. (petit,
1.8Mb; mitjà, 4
Mb; gros,
16 Mb).
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2004). Resum de la tesi: llenguatge: principis,
universals i orígens. Butlletí de l'ACIA (lleuger,
38Kb).Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2004). The Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words. Physical Review E 70, 056135.
[ doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.056135 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R., Solé, R. V. & Köhler, R. (2004). Patterns in syntactic dependency networks. Physical Review E 69, 051915.
[ doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.051915 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2003). Language: universals, principles and origins. PhD Thesis. Barcelona: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Solé, R. V. (2003). Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 100, 788-791.
[ doi: 10.1073/pnas.0335980100 ]
Ferrer i Cancho & Solé, R. V. (2003).
Optimization in complex networks. Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks, Lecture Notes in Physics Vol 625, Springer (Berlin), pp 114-125.
[ doi: 10.1007/b12331 ]
Solé, R.V., Ferrer i Cancho, R., Montoya, J. M. & Valverde, S. (2002). Selection, tinkering and emergence in complex networks. Complexity 8, 20-33.
[ doi: 10.1002/cplx.10055 ]
Valverde, S., Solé, R. V. & Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2002). Scale-free networks from optimal design. Europhysics Letters 60, 512-517.
[ doi: 10.1209/epl/i2002-00248-2 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R., Solé, R. V. & Köhler, R. (2002). Universality in syntactic dependencies. Santa Fe Working paper 03-06-042.
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Solé, R. V. (2002). Zipf´s law and random texts. Advances in Complex Systems 5, 1-6.
[ doi: 10.1142/S0219525902000468 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Reina, F. (2002). Quantifying the semantic contribution of particles. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 9, 35-47.
[ doi: 10.1076/jqul.9.1.35.8483 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Solé, R.V. (2001). The small-world of human language. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 268, 2261-266.
[ doi: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1800 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R., Janssen, C. & Solé, R. V. (2001). Topology of technology graphs: small world patterns in electronic circuits. Physical Review E 64, 32767.
[ doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.046119 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Solé, R. V. (2001). Two regimes in the frequency of words and the origin of complex lexicons: Zipf's law revisited. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 8, 165-173.
[ doi: 10.1076/jqul.8.3.165.4101 ]
Miralles, R., Ferrer, R., Moya, A., Solé, R.V. & Elena, S. (2001). Multiple infection dynamics has pronounced effects on the virulence of RNA viruses. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 14, 654-662.
[ doi:10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00308.x ]
Solé, R.V., Ferrer, R., González-García, I., Quer, J. & Domingo, E. (1999). Red queen dynamics, competition and critical points in a model of RNA virus quasispecies. Journal of Theoretical Biology 198, 47-59.
[ doi: 10.1006/jtbi.1999.0901 ]