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Forns, N. & Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2012). Menzerath-Altmann law in
genomes.
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Baixeries, J., Hernández-Fernández, A.
& Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.
(2012). Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes.
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exhibit the real Zipf's law-like rank distribution. PLoS ONE 5 (3),
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(2009). The self-organization of genomes. Complexity 15 (5), 34-36.
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Solé, R.
V.
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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & McCowan, B.
(2009). A law of word meaning in dolphin whistle types. Entropy 11
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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Lusseau, D.
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Complexity 14 (5), 23-25.
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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. & Gavaldà, R. (2009). The frequency spectrum of finite samples from the intermittent silence process. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 60 (4), 837-843.
Ferrer-i-Cancho, R. (2008). Some limits of standard linguistic
typology. The case of Cysouw's models for the frequencies of the six
possible orderings of S, V and O. Advances in
Complex Systems 11 (3), 421-432.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R., Lorenzo, G. & Longa, V. (2008).
Long-distance dependencies are not uniquely human. In: The Evolution
of Language: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference
(EVOLANG7). Smith, A. D. M., Smith, K. & Ferrer i Cancho, R
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. &
Hernández Fernández, A. (2008). Power laws and the
golden number. In: “Problems of general, germanic and slavic
linguistics”, Altmann, G., Zadorozhna, I. & Matskulyak, Y. (eds.),
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. & Díaz-Guilera, A.
(2007). The global minima of the communicative energy of natural
communication systems. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, P06009.
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doi:
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Ferrer i Cancho, R., Mehler, A., Pustylnikov, O. & Diaz-Guilera
(2007). Correlations in the organization of large-scale syntactic
dependency networks, In: TextGraphs-2: Graph-Based Algorithms for
Natural Language. Association for Computational Linguistics, Rochester,
NY, USA, pp. 65-72.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R.,
Capocci, A. & Caldarelli, G. (2007). Spectral methods cluster
words of the same class in a syntactic dependency network.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005). Zipf's law from a
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cases? Glottometrics
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Ferrer i Cancho, R., Riordan, O. & Bollobás,
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reference. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B
272, 561-565.
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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.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2005).
Decoding least effort and scaling in signal frequency distributions.
Physica A 345, 275-284.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2004). The Euclidean distance
between syntactically linked words. Physical Review E 70, 056135.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R., Solé,
R. V. & Köhler, R. (2004). Patterns in syntactic dependency
networks. Physical Review E 69, 051915.
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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.
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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.
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Solé, R.V., Ferrer i Cancho, R.,
Montoya, J. M. & Valverde, S. (2002). Selection, tinkering and
emergence in complex networks. Complexity 8, 20-33.
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Valverde, S., Solé, R. V. &
Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2002). Scale-free networks from optimal design.
Europhysics Letters 60, 512-517.
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Ferrer i
Cancho, R. & Solé, R. V. (2002). Zipf´s law and
random texts. Advances in Complex Systems 5, 1-6.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. &
Reina, F. (2002). Quantifying the semantic contribution of particles.
Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 9, 35-47.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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