20.500.12556/DKUM-66402 Languages cool as they expand: allometric scaling and the decreasing need for new words We analyze the occurrence frequencies of over 15 million words recorded in millions of books published during the past two centuries in seven different languages. For all languages and chronological subsets of the data we confirm that two scaling regimes characterize the word frequency distributions, with only the more common words obeying the classic Zipf law. Using corpora of unprecedented size, we test the allometric scaling relation between the corpus size and the vocabulary size of growing languages to demonstrate a decreasing marginal need for new words, a feature that is likely related to the underlying correlations between words. We calculate the annual growth fluctuations of word use which has a decreasing trend as the corpus size increases, indicating a slowdown in linguistic evolution following language expansion. This cooling pattern forms the basis of a third statistical regularity, which unlike the Zipf and the Heaps law, is dynamical in nature. culturomics society culture quantitative linguistics physics of social systems družba kultura kvantitativna lingvistika fizika socialnih sistemov true true true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2017-06-23 11:26:59 2017-06-23 11:28:49 2024-05-28 10:54:02 2019-07-11 15:46:16 2012 0 0 str. 1-10 Letn. 2 2012 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2045-2322 536.91 18727432 19550472 10.1038/srep00943 2045-2322 URN:SI:UM:DK:H0VATFMG Scientific_Reports_2012_Petersen_et_al._Languages_cool_as_they_expand_Allometric_scaling_and_the_decreasing_need_for_new_words.pdf Scientific_Reports_2012_Petersen_et_al._Languages_cool_as_they_expand_Allometric_scaling_and_the_decreasing_need_for_new_words.pdf 1 4C178409CB8543F490CAA301D4AE78DE 7fb63158f31e297c7ca5dd31da576607877859c763cf0b669ceec54efda6b8f7 4a7a898a-7c0e-11eb-bb7a-00155d0001ca https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=113024 http://www.nature.com/articles/srep00943 1 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=113023 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0