#cross-linguistic

Information Topology of Natural Language

How does mutual information between tokens decay with distance across typologically diverse languages, and does language structure (morphology, word order) shape the information topology?

• Power-law MI decay universal (5/5 langs, R²>0.96). Exponential catastrophically fails in log-linear R² (<-10). SSM expon…
• Beta exponent descriptively splits by morphology: analytic (en/pt) 1.1-1.2 vs agglutinative (tr/fi/ar) 0.87-0.98. CIs ov…