Is language evolution grinding to a halt? The scaling of lexical turbulence in English fiction suggests it is not

no code implementations • 11 Mar 2015 • Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

Of basic interest is the quantification of the long term growth of a language's lexicon as it develops to more completely cover both a culture's communication requirements and knowledge space.

Characterizing the Google Books corpus: Strong limits to inferences of socio-cultural and linguistic evolution

no code implementations • 5 Jan 2015 • Eitan Adam Pechenick, Christopher M. Danforth, Peter Sheridan Dodds

However, the Google Books corpus suffers from a number of limitations which make it an obscure mask of cultural popularity.