Universality and diversity in word patterns. (arXiv:2208.11175v1 [cs.CL])

Words are fundamental linguistic units that connect thoughts and things
through meaning. However, words do not appear independently in a text sequence.
The existence of syntactic rules induce correlations among neighboring words.
Further, words are not evenly distributed but approximately follow a power law
since terms with a pure semantic content appear much less often than terms that
specify grammar relations. Using an ordinal pattern approach, we present an
analysis of lexical statistical connections for eleven major languages. We find …

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