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Stochastic Model for Phonemes Uncovers an Author-Dependency of Their Usage

We study rank-frequency relations for phonemes, the minimal units that still relate to linguistic meaning. We show that these relations can be described by the Dirichlet distribution, a direct analogue of the ideal-gas model in statistical mechanics. This description allows us to demonstrate that th...

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Autores principales: Deng, Weibing, Allahverdyan, Armen E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825982/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27058596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152561