Identifying Trends in Word Frequency Dynamics

Evolution of the most common English words and phrases over the centuries

(2012) M. Perc   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

You Name It – How Memory and Delay Govern First Name Dynamics

(2012) David A. Kessler et al.   PLoS One

Niche as a Determinant of Word Fate in Online Groups

(2011) Eduardo G. Altmann et al.   PLoS One

Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter

(2011) Peter Sheridan Dodds et al.   PLoS One

The origin and evolution of word order

(2011) M. Gell-Mann et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TOWARDS THE QUANTIFICATION OF THE SEMANTIC INFORMATION ENCODED IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE

(2010) MARCELO A. MONTEMURRO et al.   ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Phase transitions in least-effort communications

(2010) Mikhail Prokopenko et al.   JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT

Diversity, competition, extinction: the ecophysics of language change

(2010) R. V. Sole et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Statistical mechanics of letters in words

(2010) Greg J. Stephens et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books

(2010) J.-B. Michel et al.   SCIENCE

Beyond Word Frequency: Bursts, Lulls, and Scaling in the Temporal Distributions of Words

(2009) Eduardo G. Altmann et al.   PLoS One

Statistical physics of social dynamics

(2009) Claudio Castellano et al.   REVIEWS OF MODERN PHYSICS

Building social cognitive models of language change

(2009) Daniel J. Hruschka et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

On the bidirectional relationship between geographic range and taxonomic duration

(2008) Michael Foote et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY