Abstract：
:We study the relationship between vocabulary size and text length in a corpus of 75 literary works in English, authored by six writers, distinguishing between the contributions of three grammatical classes (or 'tags,' namely, nouns, verbs and others), and analyse the progressive appearance of new words of each tag along each individual text. We find that, as prescribed by Heaps' Law, vocabulary sizes and text lengths follow a well-defined power-law relation. Meanwhile, the appearance of new words in each text does not obey a power law, and is on the whole well described by the average of random shufflings of the text. Deviations from this average, however, are statistically significant and show systematic trends across the corpus. Specifically, we find that the appearance of new words along each text is predominantly retarded with respect to the average of random shufflings. Moreover, different tags add systematically distinct contributions to this tendency, with verbs and others being respectively more and less retarded than the mean trend, and nouns following instead the overall mean. These statistical systematicities are likely to point to the existence of linguistically relevant information stored in the different variants of Heaps' Law, a feature that is still in need of extensive assessment.
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R Soc Open Scijournal_title
Royal Society open scienceauthors
Chacoma A,Zanette DHdoi
10.1098/rsos.200008subject
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2020-03-18 00:00:00pages
200008issue
3issn
2054-5703pii
rsos200008journal_volume
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