Search Results for author: Neus Català

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Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan

no code implementations30 Jun 2021 Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-Cancho, Lluís Padró, Antoni Hernández-Fernández

In his pioneering research, G. K. Zipf formulated a couple of statistical laws on the relationship between the frequency of a word with its number of meanings: the law of meaning distribution, relating the frequency of a word and its frequency rank, and the meaning-frequency law, relating the frequency of a word with its number of meanings.

Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language

no code implementations27 Mar 2019 Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries

The pioneering research of G. K. Zipf on the relationship between word frequency and other word features led to the formulation of various linguistic laws.

The polysemy of the words that children learn over time

no code implementations27 Nov 2016 Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries

However, such preference could be a side-effect of another bias: the preference of children for nouns in combination with the lower polysemy of nouns with respect to other part-of-speech categories.

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