The frequency distribution of words has been a key object of study in statistical linguistics for
the past 70 years. This distribution approximately follows a simple mathematical form known …

Science is not merely the smooth progressive interaction of hypothesis, experiment and
theory, although it sometimes has that form. More realistically the scientific study of any …

INTRODUCTION Music is often assumed to be a human universal, emerging from an
evolutionary adaptation specific to music and/or a by-product of adaptations for affect …

Much work is focused upon music genre recognition (MGR) from audio recordings, symbolic
data, and other modalities. While reviews have been written of some of this work before, no …

Literature is a form of expression whose temporal structure, both in content and style,
provides a historical record of the evolution of culture. In this work we take on a quantitative …

Infants enculturate to their soundscape over the first year of life, yet theories of how they do
so rarely make contact with details about the sounds available in everyday life. Here, we …

Human language is unique in its structure: language is made up of parts that can be
recombined in a productive way. The parts are not given but have to be discovered by …

We show that the mutual information between two symbols, as a function of the number of
symbols between the two, decays exponentially in any probabilistic regular grammar, but …

A primary goal for artificial nose (eNose) technology is to report perceptual qualities of novel
odors. Currently, however, eNoses primarily detect and discriminate between odorants they …

La classification automatique de la musique est un vaste domaine de recherche,
multidisciplinaire par nature, et qui donne lieu à des avancées significatives tant du point de …