Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish

In this work we consider Glissando Corpus—an oral corpus of Catalan and Spanish—and empirically analyze the presence of the four classical linguistic laws (Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, Brevity law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law) in oral communication, and further complement this with the analysis of two...

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Authors: Hernández Fernández, Antonio|||0000-0002-9466-2704, González Torre, Iván, Garrido, Juan Maria, Lacasa, Lucas
Format: article
Publication Date:2019
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repository:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Language:English
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Keyword:Zipf’s law
Brevity law
Menzerath–Altmann’s law
Herdan’s law
lognormal distribution
Size-rank law
Quantitative linguistics
Glissando corpus
Scaling
Speech
Lingüística quantitativa
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
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spelling Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and SpanishHernández Fernández, Antonio|||0000-0002-9466-2704González Torre, IvánGarrido, Juan MariaLacasa, LucasZipf’s lawBrevity lawMenzerath–Altmann’s lawHerdan’s lawlognormal distributionSize-rank lawQuantitative linguisticsGlissando corpusScalingSpeechLingüística quantitativaÀrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge naturalIn this work we consider Glissando Corpus—an oral corpus of Catalan and Spanish—and empirically analyze the presence of the four classical linguistic laws (Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, Brevity law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law) in oral communication, and further complement this with the analysis of two recently formulated laws: lognormality law and size-rank law. By aligning the acoustic signal of speech production with the speech transcriptions, we are able to measure and compare the agreement of each of these laws when measured in both physical and symbolic units. Our results show that these six laws are recovered in both languages but considerably more emphatically so when these are examined in physical units, hence reinforcing the so-called ‘physical hypothesis’ according to which linguistic laws might indeed have a physical origin and the patterns recovered in written texts would, therefore, be just a byproduct of the regularities already present in the acoustic signals of oral communication.Peer Reviewed20192019-11-2620192019-12-09journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2117/173623reponame:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPCinstname:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 3.0 Spainhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/1736232026-05-27T15:37:01Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
title Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
spellingShingle Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
Hernández Fernández, Antonio|||0000-0002-9466-2704
Zipf’s law
Brevity law
Menzerath–Altmann’s law
Herdan’s law
lognormal distribution
Size-rank law
Quantitative linguistics
Glissando corpus
Scaling
Speech
Lingüística quantitativa
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
title_short Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
title_full Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
title_fullStr Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
title_full_unstemmed Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
title_sort Linguistic laws in speech: the case of Catalan and Spanish
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Hernández Fernández, Antonio|||0000-0002-9466-2704
González Torre, Iván
Garrido, Juan Maria
Lacasa, Lucas
author Hernández Fernández, Antonio|||0000-0002-9466-2704
author_facet Hernández Fernández, Antonio|||0000-0002-9466-2704
González Torre, Iván
Garrido, Juan Maria
Lacasa, Lucas
author_role author
author2 González Torre, Iván
Garrido, Juan Maria
Lacasa, Lucas
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Zipf’s law
Brevity law
Menzerath–Altmann’s law
Herdan’s law
lognormal distribution
Size-rank law
Quantitative linguistics
Glissando corpus
Scaling
Speech
Lingüística quantitativa
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
topic Zipf’s law
Brevity law
Menzerath–Altmann’s law
Herdan’s law
lognormal distribution
Size-rank law
Quantitative linguistics
Glissando corpus
Scaling
Speech
Lingüística quantitativa
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial::Llenguatge natural
description In this work we consider Glissando Corpus—an oral corpus of Catalan and Spanish—and empirically analyze the presence of the four classical linguistic laws (Zipf’s law, Herdan’s law, Brevity law, and Menzerath–Altmann’s law) in oral communication, and further complement this with the analysis of two recently formulated laws: lognormality law and size-rank law. By aligning the acoustic signal of speech production with the speech transcriptions, we are able to measure and compare the agreement of each of these laws when measured in both physical and symbolic units. Our results show that these six laws are recovered in both languages but considerably more emphatically so when these are examined in physical units, hence reinforcing the so-called ‘physical hypothesis’ according to which linguistic laws might indeed have a physical origin and the patterns recovered in written texts would, therefore, be just a byproduct of the regularities already present in the acoustic signals of oral communication.
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