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Elisabeth Borleffs, Ben A. M. Maassen, Heikki Lyytinen, Frans Zwarts
This narrative review discusses quantitative indices measuring differences between alphabetic languages that are related to the process of word recognition. The specific orthography that a child is acquiring has been identified as a central element influencing reading acquisition and dyslexia. However, the development…
Elisabeth Borleffs, Ben A. M. Maassen, Heikki Lyytinen, Frans Zwarts
Reading is an essential skill in modern societies, yet not all learners necessarily become proficient readers. Theoretical concepts (e.g., the orthographic depth hypothesis; the grain size theory) as well as empirical evidence suggest that certain orthographies are easier to learn than others. The present paper reviews…
Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Victor Mijangos
We propose a quantitative approach for quantifying morphological complexity of a language based on text. Several corpus-based methods have focused on measuring the different word forms that a language can produce. We take into account not only the productivity of morphological processes but also the predictability of…
Joshua E. Auerbach, Josh C. Bongard, Olaf Sporns
Whether, when, how, and why increased complexity evolves in biological populations is a longstanding open question. In this work we combine a recently developed method for evolving virtual organisms with an information-theoretic metric of morphological complexity in order to investigate how the complexity of…
Çağrı Çöltekin, Taraka Rama
We present an analysis of eight measures used for quantifying morphological complexity of natural languages. The measures we study are corpus-based measures of morphological complexity with varying requirements for corpus annotation. We present similarities and differences between these measures visually and through…
Ryan Cotterell, Christo Kirov, Mans Hulden, Jason Eisner
We quantify the linguistic complexity of different languages' morphological systems. We verify that there is an empirical trade-off between paradigm size and irregularity: a language's inflectional paradigms may be either large in size or highly irregular, but never both. Our methodology measures paradigm irregularity…
Ximena Gutierrez-Vasques, Víctor Mijangos
We use two small parallel corpora for comparing the morphological complexity of Spanish, Otomi and Nahuatl. These are languages that belong to different linguistic families, the latter are lowresourced. We take into account two quantitative criteria, on one hand the distribution of types over tokens in a corpus, on the…
Luyi Miao, Xu Dai, Hanchen Song, André Ricardo Backes + 1 more
Morphological complexity reflects the biological structure of an organism and is closely linked to its associated functions and phylogenetics. In animals with shells, ornamentation is an important characteristic of morphological complexity, and it has various functions. However, because of the variations in type…
Guillaume Dera, Elise Nardin, Laurent Risser, Marius Albino + 3 more
The Earth’s biosphere exhibits a notable diversity of forms, yet the full morphological extent and limits of life remain largely unexplored. Here, we develop a geometric complexity space for comparing all known unicellular and multicellular phyla using fractal descriptors of the density and heterogeneity of body mass…
Pascal Hagolani, Roland Zimm, Miquel Marin-Riera, Isaac Salazar-Ciudad
Embryonic development involves gene networks, extracellular signaling, cell behaviors (cell division, apoptosis, adhesion, etc.) and mechanical interactions. How should gene networks, extracellular signaling and cell behaviors be coordinated to lead to complex and robust morphologies? To explore this question, we…
Joonwoo Kim, Solbin Lee, Kichun Nam
A fundamental question in psycholinguistics concerns whether morphological decomposition is obligatory during visual word recognition or whether whole-word access can occur under conditions of high frequency and familiarity. The present study aimed to examine how morphological complexity and lexical frequency jointly…
Tim Rock, Matthew A. Wills
An increasing number of evolutionary studies seek to quantify the morphological complexity of organisms, particularly those comprising serially homologous elements at different hierarchical levels of organization. Numerous operational frameworks have been proposed for doing this, but most focus on one or multiple…
Fei Gao, Lin Hua, Yuwen He, Zhen Yuan
To date, it is still unclear how word structure might impact lexical processing in the brain for morphological impoverished language like Chinese. In this study, concurrent EEG and fNIRS recordings were performed to inspect the temporal and spatial brain activity that are related to the morphological priming effect…
Amanda Doucette, Ryan Cotterell, Morgan Sonderegger, Timothy O’Donnell
the Lexicon Authors: ['Amanda Doucette' 'Ryan Cotterell' 'Morgan Sonderegger' 'Timothy O’Donnell'] It has been claimed that within a language, morphologically irregular words are more likely to be phonotactically simple and morphologically regular words are more likely to be phonotactically complex. This inverse…
Hadar Nasi, Daniel Barak, Maria C. di Gregorio, Linda J. W. Shimon + 2 more
Straight facets and sharp edges are among the most distinctive indicators of well-defined crystals, and often reflect the polyhedral geometry and symmetry of the underlying close-packed, molecular structure. Curved morphologies are sometimes observed in biogenic crystals where templating or non-classical…
Abigail Dommer, Nicholas Wauer, Kyle Angle, Aakash Davasam + 6 more
Sea spray aerosol (SSA) ejected through bursting bubbles at the ocean surface are complex mixtures of salts and organic species. Composition affects their ability to form marine clouds which cover nearly three-quarters of the Earth and play a critical role in the climate system. Submicron SSA particles have long…
Maria Chiara di Gregorio, Vivek Singh, Linda J. W. Shimon, Michal Lahav + 1 more
The symmetry of a crystal’s morphology usually reflects the symmetry of the crystallographic packing. For single-crystals, the space and point groups allow only a limited number of mathematical descriptions of the morphology (forms), all of which are convex polyhedrons. In contrast, concave polyhedrons are a hallmark…
Adrian Krzyzanowski, Axel Pahl, Michael Grigalunas, Herbert Waldmann
The fraction of sp3 hybridised carbons (Fsp3) and the fraction of stereogenic carbons (FCstereo) are two widely employed scores of molecular complexity with a strong link to biologically relevant features such as frequency, potency and selectivity of protein binding. However, due to their simplistic nature, they do not…
Jillian A Sanderson, Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong, Charles-Olivier Dufresne-Camaro, D Luke Mahler
Exploring the diversity and function of complex colour patterns is a fundamental interest in ecology and evolutionary biology, but progress on many questions is limited by our ability to quantify diverse visual patterns. We address this problem by introducing Dude, Everyone Wants Colour Pattern Analysis Tools (DEWPAT)…
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Fungal pathogens, including Colletotrichum gloeosporioides and Pestalotiopsis spp., are significant threats to global cacao production. Understanding their response to novel antifungal compounds is crucial for developing new and effective plant protection strategies. To establish a clear structure-activity relationship…
Jacob Dibble, Alexios Prelorendjos, Ombretta Rómice, Mattia Zanella + 3 more
'Emanuele Strano' 'Mark Pagel' 'Sergio Porta'] Jacob Dibble Urban Design Studies Unit, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, UK Alexios Prelorendjos Urban Design Studies Unit, Department of Architecture, University of Strathclyde, UK Ombretta Romice Urban Design Studies Unit, Department of…
Alan V. Rincon, Bridget M. Waller, Julie Duboscq, Alexander Mielke + 3 more
The social complexity hypothesis for communicative complexity posits that animal societies with more complex social systems require more complex communication systems. Here, we test the social complexity hypothesis on three macaque species that vary in their degree of social tolerance and complexity. We coded facial…
Dietrich Stout, Thierry Chaminade, Andreas Thomik, Jan Apel + 1 more
Distinctive human behaviors from tool-making to language are thought to rely on a uniquely evolved capacity for hierarchical action sequencing. Unfortunately, testing of this idea has been hampered by a lack of objective, generalizable methods for measuring the structural complexity of real-world behaviors. Here we…