Quote: natural languages use a simple morphology for words; e.g., singular vs. plural and shell-like word structure about the root [»newpEL_1982]

Quote: nouns are either count nouns with singular and plural forms or mass nouns without; e.g., 'bean' and 'beans' vs. 'rice' [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: pidgin grammars lack surface and morphological complexity. Pidgins use semantic transparency, a limited vocabulary, and limited function words [»sebbM_1997]

Quote: the use of a word depends on more than its meaning; also phonetic, syntactic, morphology and etymology [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: morphological dimensions in mimetic ASL for movement, handshape, orientation, manner, basehand, and process morphemes; e.g., FLY vs. AIRPLANE [»newpEL_1982]

Quote: the first step in understanding the unformalizable is dynamical models that are compatible with a given morphology [»thomR_1975]

Quote: the class of grammatical sequences must be predetermined, but can't simply list all of the morphemes as done with phonemes [»quinWV8_1951]

Quote: mimetic depiction in American Sign Language is like morphology in spoken languages; small number of discrete components and combinations [»newpEL_1982]

Quote: speech uses discrete words or morphemes for expressing concepts

Quote: Eskimo words use a synthetic morphology to build words by suffixation; choice of suffixes varies by speaker and situation [»martL6_1986]

Quote: Eskimo uses two roots for snow itself; qanik for snow in the air and aput for snow on the ground [»martL6_1986]

Quote: earliest reference to Eskimos and snow; four unrelated words for snow on the ground, snow drift, falling snow, and drifting snow [»martL6_1986]

Quote: type-token--an utterance type is a set of utterance tokens, e.g., two utterances of 'A cow.' and 'A cow.'; ignores differences [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: noun-verb interaction with generic commands mirrors natural languages: many nouns for data, a few verbs for data transformations that are inherently complex; e.g., Xerox Star and Apple Macintosh [»myerBA_1992]

Quote: three most popular verbs for each operation totaled a third of all responses [»landTK7_1983]

Quote: in ASL mimetic depiction there are 7 movement roots, i.e., verbs of motion and location; e.g., hold root to indicate "be stationary" [»newpEL_1982]

Quote: English adjectives have relative ranks that order multiple occurrences; e.g., 'a red wooden table' [»ziffP_1960]

Quote: a master chess player has between 25,000 and 100,000 schemata; similar to an educated person's vocabulary [»sowaJF_1984]

Quote: organized activity is performed in terms of clearly understood, repeatable units; e.g., 3/4" flat-head, pipette, McDonald's [»holtAW_1997]

Quote: numerals 1..9 are the first letters for number words in Sanskrit; universally used [»blisCK_1965]

Quote: the identity of a CLI assembly consists of an originator key, name, version number, and optional cultural; variations via satellite assemblies [»meijE10_2002]

Quote: perhaps the phoneme is constructed, if at all, as a consequence of perception, not as a step of perception [»oettAG_1972]

Quote: every human language standardizes on a few dozen phonemes even though humans can produce an infinity of sounds [»sowaJF_1984]

Quote: the phoneme may be the consequence of perception instead of an intermediate form [»dreyHL_1979]

Quote: sounds are different phonemes if substitution changes the meaning [»quinWV8_1951]

Quote: the syntactic structure and phonemes of a sentence depends on its meaning [»oettAG_1972]

Quote: phonemes form a highly structured system; if one is lost in a dialect, all the others are shifted [»sowaJF_1984]

Quote: human lexical access time depends on word frequency and polysemy (number of word senses); the two are also correlated [»beckR7_1990]

Quote: Zipf's law--the product of frequency rank and frequency is a constant in natural language discourse; Zipf provided an explanation [»blaiDC_1990]

Quote: Zipf's law--the size of a vocabulary in use is the frequency of its most used word

Quote: Zipf's law is from a vocabulary balance between speakers wanting to use the same word for all tasks and listeners wanting different words [»blaiDC_1990]

Quote: on average, subjects visited 60% of their pages only once, 4% four times, and a handful frequently [»tausL7_1997]

Quote: a word's rank in Ulysses times its frequency of occurrence is a constant; i.e. a 45 degree line on log-log paper with steps for low frequencies [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: need the right sample size to get a hyperbolic relationship for rank vs. frequency in Zipf's law

Quote: the number of meanings for a word is the square root of the word's frequency; e.g., Thorndike's index of 10 million running words [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: even distribution of interval sizes (logarithmic) for words that occur 6 to 24 times in Ulysses; demonstrates an even distribution of effort [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: Law of Abbreviation: if arrange tools linearly away from an artisan, the tools will tend to increase in size, weight and distance as they decrease in frequency of use [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: two examples of the inverse relationship between the length of a word and its frequency of use [»zipfGK_1949]

Quote: 27% of messages from posters who post once in six months; 25% of messages from 3% of posters [»whitS11_1998]

Quote: can use Zipf's law to determine retrieval system effectiveness; want Zipfian rank:frequency for context and subject description usage [»blaiDC_1990]