Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Who is the root in a syntactic dependency structure? Appl. Netw. Sci. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Marta Arias
2025	J	`jnl`	On the class of coding optimality of human languages and the origins of Zipf's law. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2025	J	`jnl`	The Optimal Placement of the Head in the Noun Phrase. The Case of Demonstrative, Numeral, Adjective and Noun. J. Quant. Linguistics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2025	J	`jnl`	The distribution of syntactic dependency distances. Glottometrics Sonia Petrini, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2025	J	`jnl`	The exponential distribution of the orders of demonstrative, numeral, adjective and noun. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2025	J	`jnl`	Who is the root in a syntactic dependency structure? CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Marta Arias
2024	J	`jnl`	Predictability maximization and the origins of word order harmony. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2024	J	`jnl`	Swap distance minimization beyond entropy minimization in word order variation. CoRR Víctor Franco-Sánchez, Arnau Martí-Llobet, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2024	J	`jnl`	The maximum linear arrangement problem for trees under projectivity and planarity. Inf. Process. Lett. Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2024	J	`jnl`	The optimal placement of the head in the noun phrase. The case of demonstrative, numeral, adjective and noun. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2024	J	`jnl`	expected sum of edge lengths in planar linearizations of trees. J. Lang. Model. Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2023	J	`jnl`	Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited. CoRR Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell, Mengxue Wang, Chris Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2023	J	`jnl`	Direct and indirect evidence of compression of word lengths. Zipf's law of abbreviation revisited. Glottometrics Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell, Mengxue Wang, Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2023	J	`jnl`	Linguistic laws in biology. CoRR Stuart Semple, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Morgan L. Gustison
2023	J	`jnl`	On The Maximum Linear Arrangement Problem for Trees. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2023	J	`jnl`	Swap distance minimization in SOV languages. Cognitive and mathematical foundations. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Savithry Namboodiripad
2023	J	`jnl`	Swap distance minimization in SOV languages. Cognitive and mathematical foundations. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Savithry Namboodiripad
2022	J	`jnl`	Linear-Time Calculation of the Expected Sum of Edge Lengths in Random Projective Linearizations of Trees. Comput. Linguistics Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2022	J	`jnl`	Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in planar linearizations of trees. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2022	J	`jnl`	Memory limitations are hidden in grammar. Glottometrics Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Morten H. Christiansen, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2022	J	`jnl`	Minimum projective linearizations of trees in linear time. Inf. Process. Lett. Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2022	J	`jnl`	Optimal Coding and the Origins of Zipfian Laws. J. Quant. Linguistics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Christian Bentz, Caio Seguin
2022	J	`jnl`	The Maximum Linear Arrangement Problem for trees under projectivity and planarity. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2022	J	`jnl`	The distribution of syntactic dependency distances. CoRR Sonia Petrini, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2022	J	`jnl`	The optimality of word lengths. Theoretical foundations and an empirical study. CoRR Sonia Petrini, Antoni Casas-i-Muñoz, Jordi Cluet-i-Martinell, Mengxue Wang, Christian Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2021	J	`jnl`	Anti Dependency Distance Minimization in Short Sequences. A Graph Theoretic Approach. J. Quant. Linguistics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2021	J	`jnl`	Dependency distance minimization predicts compression. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2021	J	`jnl`	Linear-time calculation of the expected sum of edge lengths in random projective linearizations of trees. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2021	J	`jnl`	Minimum projective linearizations of trees in linear time. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2021	J	`jnl`	The Linear Arrangement Library. A new tool for research on syntactic dependency structures. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2021	J	`jnl`	The advent and fall of a vocabulary learning bias from communicative efficiency. CoRR David Carrera-Casado, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2021	J	`jnl`	Zipf's laws of meaning in Catalan. CoRR Neus Català, Jaume Baixeries, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Lluís Padró, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
2020	J	`jnl`	Fast calculation of the variance of edge crossings in random linear arrangements. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2020	J	`jnl`	Reappraising the distribution of the number of edge crossings of graphs on a sphere. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Mercè Mora, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2020	J	`jnl`	The optimality of syntactic dependency distances. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Juan Luis Esteban, Lluís Alemany-Puig
2020	J	`jnl`	The variation of the sum of edge lengths in linear arrangements of trees. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Juan Luis Esteban
2019	J	`jnl`	Anti dependency distance minimization in short sequences. A graph theoretic approach. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2019	J	`jnl`	Edge crossings in random linear arrangements. CoRR Lluís Alemany-Puig, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2019	J	`jnl`	Memory limitations are hidden in grammar. CoRR Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Morten H. Christiansen, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2019	J	`jnl`	Optimal coding and the origins of Zipfian laws. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Christian Bentz
2019	J	`jnl`	Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language. CoRR Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries
2019	J	`jnl`	Polysemy and brevity versus frequency in language. Comput. Speech Lang. Bernardino Casas, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries
2018	J	`jnl`	A Dependency Look at the Reality of Constituency. Glottometrics Xinying Chen, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2018	J	`jnl`	José María de Oleza Arredondo, S.J. (1887-1975). Glottometrics Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2018	J	`jnl`	Optimization Models of Natural Communication. J. Quant. Linguistics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2018	J	`jnl`	The origins of Zipf's meaning-frequency law. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Michael S. Vitevitch
2018	J	`jnl`	The origins of Zipf's meaning-frequency law. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Michael S. Vitevitch
2017	J	`jnl`	A Correction on Shiloach's Algorithm for Minimum Linear Arrangement of Trees. SIAM J. Comput. Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	A commentary on "The Now-Or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language", by Christiansen and Chater (2016). Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	A dependency look at the reality of constituency. CoRR Xinying Chen, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	Are crossing dependencies really scarce? CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Juan Luis Esteban
2017	J	`jnl`	Fast calculation of entropy with Zhang's estimator. CoRR Antoni Lozano, Bernardino Casas, Chris Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	Random crossings in dependency trees. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	The Entropy of Words - Learnability and Expressivity across More than 1000 Languages. Entropy Christian Bentz, Dimitrios Alikaniotis, Michael Cysouw, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	The Placement of the Head that Maximizes Predictability. An Information Theoretic Approach. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	The optimality of attaching unlinked labels to unlinked meanings. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	The placement of the head that maximizes predictability. An information theoretic approach. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2017	J	`jnl`	Towards a theory of word order. Comment on "Dependency distance: a new perspective on syntactic patterns in natural language" by Haitao Liu et al. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	Compression and the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies. Complex. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	Compression and the origins of Zipf's law for word frequencies. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths. Complex. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2016	—	`conf`	Fast Calculation of Entropy with Zhang's Estimator. Issues in Quantitative Linguistics 4 (Dedicated to Reinhard Köhler on the occasion of his 65th birthday) Antoni Lozano, Bernardino Casas, Chris Bentz, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	Liberating Language Research from Dogmas of the 20th Century. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2016	J	`jnl`	Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, David Lusseau, Brenda McCowan
2016	—	`conf`	Testing the Robustness of Laws of Polysemy and Brevity Versus Frequency. SLSP Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Bernardino Casas, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries
2016	J	`jnl`	The Infochemical Core. J. Quant. Linguistics Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	The infochemical core. CoRR Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2016	J	`jnl`	The polysemy of the words that children learn over time. CoRR Bernardino Casas, Neus Català, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries
2016	J	`jnl`	The scaling of the minimum sum of edge lengths in uniformly random trees. CoRR Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2016	J	`jnl`	The scarcity of crossing dependencies: a direct outcome of a specific constraint? CoRR Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2015	J	`jnl`	A commentary on "The now-or-never bottleneck: a fundamental constraint on language", by Christiansen and Chater (2015). CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2015	J	`jnl`	A correction on Shiloach's algorithm for minimum linear arrangement of trees. CoRR Juan Luis Esteban, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2015	J	`jnl`	Compression and the origins of Zipf's law of abbreviation. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Chris Bentz, Caio Seguin
2015	J	`jnl`	Crossings as a side effect of dependency lengths. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2015	J	`jnl`	Kauffman's adjacent possible in word order evolution. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2015	J	`jnl`	Liberating language research from dogmas of the 20th century. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Carlos Gómez-Rodríguez
2014	J	`jnl`	A stronger null hypothesis for crossing dependencies. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2014	J	`jnl`	Beyond description. Comment on "Approaching human language with complex networks" by Cong & Liu. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2014	J	`jnl`	Non-crossing dependencies: least effort, not grammar. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2014	J	`jnl`	Optimization models of natural communication. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2014	J	`jnl`	Reply to the commentary "Be careful when assuming the obvious", by P. Alday. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2014	J	`jnl`	The meaning-frequency law in Zipfian optimization models of communication. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2014	J	`jnl`	Zipf's law for word frequencies: word forms versus lemmas in long texts. CoRR Alvaro Corral, Gemma Boleda, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	Compression as a Universal Principle of Animal Behavior. Cogn. Sci. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, David Lusseau, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Minna J. Hsu, Stuart Semple
2013	J	`jnl`	Compression as a universal principle of animal behavior CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, David Lusseau, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Minna J. Hsu, Stuart Semple
2013	J	`jnl`	Constant conditional entropy and related hypotheses CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Lukasz Debowski, Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín
2013	B	`conf`	Constant entropy rate and related hypotheses versus real language. CogSci Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Lukasz Debowski
2013	J	`jnl`	Erratum to "Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes" (BioSystems 107(3) (2012) 167-173). Biosyst. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Jaume Baixeries, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
2013	J	`jnl`	Hubiness, length and crossings in syntactic dependencies. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	Hubiness, length, crossings and their relationships in dependency trees CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	Networks in Cognitive Science CoRR Andrea Baronchelli, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Romualdo Pastor-Satorras, Nick Chater, Morten H. Christiansen
2013	J	`jnl`	Random crossings in dependency trees CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	The Law of Brevity in Macaque Vocal Communication is not an Artefact of Analysing Mean Call Durations. J. Quant. Linguistics Stuart Semple, Minna J. Hsu, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	The Parameters of the Menzerath-Altmann Law in Genomes. J. Quant. Linguistics Jaume Baixeries, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Núria Forns, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	The challenges of statistical patterns of language: The case of Menzerath's law in genomes. Complex. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Gemma Bel Enguix, Jaume Baixeries
2013	J	`jnl`	The optimality of attaching unlinked labels to unlinked objects. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	The placement of the head that minimizes online memory: a complex systems approach. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2013	J	`jnl`	The risks of mixing dependency lengths from sequences of different length CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Haitao Liu
2013	J	`jnl`	Why SOV might be initially preferred and then lost or recovered? A theoretical framework. CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2012	J	`jnl`	Information content versus word length in random typing CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Fermín Moscoso del Prado Martín
2012	J	`jnl`	Random models of Menzerath-Altmann law in genomes. Biosyst. Jaume Baixeries, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2012	J	`jnl`	The challenges of Menzerath's law in genomes CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns, Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Gemma Bel Enguix, Jaume Baixeries
2012	J	`jnl`	The failure of the law of brevity in two New World primates. Statistical caveats CoRR Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Antoni Hernández-Fernández
2012	J	`jnl`	The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations CoRR Stuart Semple, Minna J. Hsu, Govindasamy Agoramoorthy, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2011	J	`jnl`	Size of the Whole Entropy Antoni Hernández-Fernández, Jaume Baixeries, Núria Forns, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2010	J	`jnl`	The self-organization of genomes. Complex. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Núria Forns
2009	J	`jnl`	A Law of Word Meaning in Dolphin Whistle Types. Entropy Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Brenda McCowan
2009	J	`jnl`	Efficient coding in dolphin surface behavioral patterns. Complex. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, David Lusseau
2009	J	`jnl`	The frequency spectrum of finite samples from the intermittent silence process. J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ricard Gavaldà
2009	J	`jnl`	Universal Complex Structures in Written Language CoRR Alvaro Corral, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Gemma Boleda, Albert Díaz-Guilera
2008	J	`jnl`	Some Limits of Standard Linguistic Typology: the Case of Cysouw's Models for the Frequencies of the Six Possible Orderings of S, V and O. Adv. Complex Syst. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2008	J	`jnl`	Some Word Order Biases from Limited Brain Resources: a Mathematical Approach. Adv. Complex Syst. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2007	—	`conf`	On the universality of Zipf's law for word frequencies. Exact Methods in the Study of Language and Text Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2007	J	`jnl`	Spectral Methods Cluster Words of the Same Class in a Syntactic Dependency Network. Int. J. Bifurc. Chaos Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Andrea Capocci, Guido Caldarelli
2005	J	`jnl`	Can simple models explain Zipf's law for all exponents? Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Vito Servedio
2005	J	`jnl`	Hidden communication aspects in the exponent of Zipf's law. Glottometrics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2003	—	`—`	Language: universals, principles and origins. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
2002	J	`jnl`	Quantifying the Semantic Contribution of Particles. J. Quant. Linguistics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Francesc Reina
2002	J	`jnl`	Zipf's Law and Random Texts. Adv. Complex Syst. Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ricard V. Solé
2001	J	`jnl`	Two Regimes in the Frequency of Words and the Origins of Complex Lexicons: Zipf's Law Revisited. J. Quant. Linguistics Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho, Ricard V. Solé