Language-like efficiency and structure in house finch song

M Youngblood - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Communication needs to be complex enough to be functional while minimizing learning and
production costs. Recent work suggests that the vocalizations and gestures of some …

The puzzle of ideography

O Morin - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
An ideography is a general-purpose code made of pictures that do not encode language,
which can be used autonomously–not just as a mnemonic prop–to encode information on a …

[PDF][PDF] Linguistic intellectual analysis methods for Ukrainian textual content processing

V Vysotska - CEUR Workshop Proceedings, 2024‏ - ceur-ws.org
The peculiarities of the method of syntactic analysis of Ukrainian-language text content
aimed at automatic detection of significant keywords of input texts are considered. The role …

Assessment-Based Career Development Center and Training Provision: Essence and Indicators of Success

A Suhendra, N Nuraeni, M Subagio… - Siber Journal of …, 2024‏ - research.e-siber.org
This article delves into the complexities of today's job market and the challenges individuals
encounter in career management. It advocates for assessment and training-based career …

Does Zipf's law of abbreviation shape birdsong?

RT Gilman, CD Durrant, L Malpas, RN Lewis - bioRxiv, 2023‏ - biorxiv.org
Zipf's law of abbreviation predicts that in human languages, words that are used more
frequently will be shorter than words that are used less frequently. This has been attributed …

From Zipf to Price and beyond

I Eliazar - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Consider a society comprising n members that are ranked in a decreasing order of their
personal wealths. For this society: Zipf's Law manifests the case in which the members' …

Chinese offers a test for universal cognitive processes.

M Yan, R Kliegl - Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 2023‏ - search.ebscohost.com
The Chinese writing system is unique in its implementation of graphemic, phonological,
morphological, and semantic features. We add nuances to its portrait in the target article and …

Visual languages and the problems with ideographies: A commentary on Morin

N Cohn, J Schilperoord - Behavioral and Brain …, 2023‏ - research.tilburguniversity.edu
Morin argues that ideographies are limited because graphic codes lack a capacity for
proliferating standardization. However, natural graphic systems display rich standardization …

A Cultural Evolutionary Model for the Law of Abbreviation

O Morin, A Koshevoy - Topics in cognitive science, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Efficiency principles are increasingly called upon to study features of human language and
communication. Zipf's law of abbreviation is widely seen as a classic instance of a linguistic …

A cognitive account of the puzzle of ideography

XD Arsiwalla - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.00296, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
In this commentary article to'The Puzzle of Ideography'by Morin, we put forth a new cognitive
account of the puzzle of ideography, that complements the standardization account of Morin …