Publications

This just contains the list of publications by more than one researcher of the lab. See the personal websites of the members for more publications. Many publications arise from a strong network of national and international collaborations.

2022

Alemany-Puig, L.; Esteban, J. L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Minimum projective linearizations of trees in linear time Journal Article

In: Information Processing Letters, vol. 174, pp. 106204, 2022.

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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Gómez-Rodríguez, J. L. Esteban C.; Alemany-Puig, L.

Optimality of syntactic dependency distances Journal Article

In: Physical Review E, pp. in press, 2022.

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Alemany-Puig, L.; Esteban, J. L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon

The Linear Arrangement Library. A new tool for research on syntactic dependency structures Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Quantitative Syntax (Quasy, SyntaxFest 2021), pp. 1-16, Association for Computational Linguistics, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2022.

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2021

Català, N.; Baixeries, J.; Ferrer-Cancho, R.; Padró, L.; Hernández-Fernández, A.

Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan Journal Article

In: PLOS ONE, vol. 16, pp. 1-21, 2021.

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Carrera-Casado, David; Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ramon

The advent and fall of a vocabulary learning bias from communicative efficiency Journal Article

In: Biosemiotics, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 345-375, 2021.

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Alemany-Puig, L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in random projective linearizations of trees Journal Article

In: Journal of Computational Linguistics, pp. under review, 2021.

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Torre, Iván G.; Dębowski, Łukasz; Hernández-Fernández, Antoni

Can Menzerath’s law be a criterion of complexity in communication? Journal Article

In: PLOS ONE, vol. 16, no. 8, pp. 1-21, 2021.

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2020

González, I.; Artime, O.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Serrano, B. Luque

¿Es el habla una señal crítica auto-organizada? Journal Article

In: Interdisciplina, vol. 8, no. 20, pp. 113–128, 2020.

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Alemany-Puig, L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Edge crossings in random linear arrangements Journal Article

In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics, no. 2, pp. 023403, 2020.

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Alemany-Puig, L.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Fast calculation of the variance of edge crossings in random linear arrangements Journal Article

In: pp. under review, 2020.

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Alemany-Puig, L.; Mora, M.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Reappraising the distribution of the number of edge crossings of graphs on a sphere Journal Article

In: Journal of Statistical Mechanics, pp. 083401, 2020.

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2019

Hernández-Fernández, A.; González, I.; Garrido, J.; Lacasa, L.

Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish Journal Article

In: Entropy: international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies, vol. 21, no. 1153, pp. e21121153:1–e21121153:16, 2019.

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González, I.; Serrano, B. Luque; Lacasa, L.; Kello, C.; Hernández-Fernández, A.

On the physical origin of linguistic laws and lognormality in speech Journal Article

In: Royal Society Open Science, vol. 6, no. 191023, 2019.

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Hernández-Fernández, A.; González, I.; Lacasa, L.; Kello, C.; Serrano, B. Luque

A statistical model from information theory to explain Zipf's law of brevity Proceedings Article

In: International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, pp. 94–94, Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, 2019.

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Hernández, A.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Lingüística cuantitativa. La estadística de las palabras Book

EMSE EDAPP y Prisanoticas Colecciones, 2019, (English title: Quantitative linguistics. The statistics of words).

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Casas, B.; Català, N.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Baixeries, J.

Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language Journal Article

In: Computer Speech & Language, vol. 58, pp. 19-50, 2019.

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2018

Casas, B.; Català, N.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Baixeries, J.

The polysemy of the words that children learn over time Journal Article

In: Interaction Studies, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 389 - 426, 2018.

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2017

González, I.; Serrano, B. Luque; Lacasa, L.; Miramontes, O.; Hernández-Fernández, A.

Emergence of linguistic laws in human voice Proceedings Article

In: Crossroads in Complex Systems, pp. 98–98, 2017.

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Casas, B.; Català, N.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Baixeries, J.

Polysemy as a vocabulary learning bias Proceedings Article

In: Cartmill, E. A.; Roberts, S.; Lyn, H.; Cornish, H. (Ed.): Book of Abstracts. Protolang 5 Barcelona, September 26–28, pp. 23, 2017, (Protolang 5 Barcelona, September 26–28).

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2016

Lozano, A.; Casas, B.; Bentz, C.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator Book Section

In: Kelih, J. Macutek R. Knight E.; Wilson, A. (Ed.): Issues in Quantitative Linguistics 4. Dedicated to Reinhard Köhler on the occasion of his 65th birthday, pp. 273-285, RAM-Verlag, Lüdenscheid, 2016, (No. 23 of the series "Studies in Quantitative Linguistics").

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Hernández-Fernández, A.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

The infochemical core Journal Article

In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, vol. 23, pp. 133-153, 2016.

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Hernández-Fernández, A.; Casas, B.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Baixeries, J.

Testing the robustness of laws of polysemy and brevity versus frequency Proceedings Article

In: Král, P.; Martín-Vide, C. (Ed.): 4th International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP 2016). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9918, pp. 19–29, 2016.

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2014

Casas, B.; Català, N.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Baixeries, J.

The evolution of polysemy in child language Proceedings Article

In: Cartmill, E. A.; Roberts, S.; Lyn, H.; Cornish, H. (Ed.): THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference (EVOLANG10), pp. 409-410, 2014, (Evolution of Language Conference (Evolang 2014). Vienna, Austria, April 14-17).

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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Baixeries, J.; Debowski, Ł.; Mačutek, J.

When is Menzerath-Altmann law mathematically trivial? A new approach Journal Article

In: Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology, vol. 13, pp. 633-644, 2014.

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2013

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernández-Fernández, A.

The failure of the law of brevity in two New World primates. Statistical caveats Journal Article

In: Glottotheory, vol. 4, no. 1, 2013.

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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Lusseau, D.; Agoramoorthy, G.; Hsu, M. J.; Semple, S.

Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior Journal Article

In: Cognitive Science, vol. 37, no. 8, pp. 1565-1578, 2013.

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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Forns, N.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Bel-Enguix, G.; Baixeries, J.

The challenges of statistical patterns of language: the case of Menzerath's law in genomes Journal Article

In: Complexity, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 11-17, 2013.

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Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Baixeries, J.; Hernández-Fernández, A.

Erratum to "Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes" (BioSystems 107 (3), 167-173) Journal Article

In: Biosystems, vol. 111, no. 3, pp. 216-217, 2013.

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Baixeries, J.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Forns, N.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

The parameters of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes Journal Article

In: Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 94-104, 2013.

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Baixeries, J.; Elvevåg, B.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

The evolution of the exponent of Zipf's law in language ontogeny Journal Article

In: PLoS ONE, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. e53227, 2013.

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2012

Baixeries, J.; Hernández-Fernández, A.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes Journal Article

In: Biosystems, vol. 107, pp. 167-173, 2012.

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2011

Hernández-Fernández, A.; Baixeries, J.; Forns, N.; Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.

Size of the whole versus number of parts in genomes Journal Article

In: Entropy, vol. 13, pp. 1465-1480, 2011.

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2008

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R.; Hernández-Fernández, A.

Power laws and the golden number Book Section

In: Kelih, E.; Levickij, V.; Altmann, G. (Ed.): Problems of text analysis, 2008.

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