Ramon Ferrer‐i‐Cancho

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

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Biosemiosis is a process of choice-making between simultaneously alternative options. It is well-known that, when sufficiently young children encounter a new word, they tend to interpret it as pointing to a meaning that does not …

The distribution of syntactic dependency distances

2025 · Glottometrics

The syntactic structure of a sentence can be represented as a graph, where vertices are words and edges indicate syntactic dependencies between them. In this setting, the distance between two linked words is defined as …