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Statistical patterns of word frequency suggesting the probabilistic nature of human languages
Traditional linguistic theories have largely regard language as a formal system composed of rigid rules.
Zipf's law in 50 languages: its structural pattern, linguistic interpretation, and cognitive motivation
A computer simulation based on the dual-process theory yields Zipf's law with the same structural pattern, suggesting that Zipf's law of natural languages are motivated by common cognitive mechanisms.
Existence of Hierarchies and Human's Pursuit of Top Hierarchy Lead to Power Law
The power law is ubiquitous in natural and social phenomena, and is considered as a universal relationship between the frequency and its rank for diverse social systems.
The distribution of information content in English sentences
Sentence is a basic linguistic unit, however, little is known about how information content is distributed across different positions of a sentence.
