Complex networks

Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2010). Network theory. In: The Cambridge encyclopedia of the language sciences, Colm Hogan, P. (ed.). Cambridge University Press. In press.
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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.
International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 17 (7), 2453 - 2463.
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Ferrer i Cancho, R. (2006). Why do syntactic links not cross? Europhysics Letters 76 1228-1235.
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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.
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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., 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. (2004). The Euclidean distance between syntactically linked words.  Physical Review E 70, 056135.
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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 & 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., Janssen, C. and Solé, R.V. (2001). Topology of technology graphs: small world patterns in electronic circuits. Physical Review E 64, 32767.
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