Publications on linguistics
Index: clinical linguistics,
origins
of language, semantics, syntax
and other topics
of quantitative linguistics.
Clinical linguistics
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).
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.
(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).
Zipf's law from a communicative phase transition.
European Physical Journal B 47, 449-457.
[ doi:
10.1140/epjb/e2005-00340-y ]
Semantics
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.
(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 ]
Syntax
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
(2006).
Why do syntactic links not cross? Europhysics Letters 76 1228-1235.
[ doi:
10.1209/epl/i2006-10406-0]
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., 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
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.
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. and Köhler, R.
(2004).
Patterns in syntactic dependency networks.
Physical Review E 69, 051915.
[ doi:
10.1103/PhysRevE.69.051915 ]
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, R.
and Reina, F. (2002).
Quantifying the semantic contribution of particles.
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 9, 35-47.
[ doi:
10.1076/jqul.9.1.35.8483 ]
Origins of language
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.,
Bollobás, R, & Riordan, O. (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 ]
Other topics
of quantitative linguistics
Besides the publications in other sections:
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. and Köhler,R. (eds.) 131-140.
Berlin: Gruyter.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R.
and Servedio, V.D.P. (2005).
Can simple
models explain Zipf's law in all cases? Glottometrics 11, 1-8.
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
(2002).
The locality of syntactic dependencies.
Submitted to the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
(2002).
Core and peripheral lexicon through word length optimization.
Submitted to the Journal of Quantitative Linguistics.
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
& Ricard V. Solé, (2002).
Zipf´s law and random texts.
Advances in Complex Systems 5, 1-6.
[ doi:
10.1142/S0219525902000468 ]
Ferrer i Cancho, R.
and Ricard V. Solé (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 ]