The small world of human language

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1482, 2001, Pages 2261-2265

  Cancho, R F I ^a   Sole R V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human language; Lexical networks; Scale free networks; Small world

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE;

ARTICLE; CROSS LINKING; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0035823871     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1800     Document Type: Article

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