http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/wyatt The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter <p>Following up on <a href="/there-once-was-man-nantucket-or-one-relation-between-rhyming-joking-and-narrating" title="My earlier post on Nantucket / Was quickly tossed in a bucket" target="_blank">my earlier post on Nantucket</a>, as well as <a href="/%E2%80%9Cwords%E2%80%9D-%E2%88%88-%E2%80%9Cbooks%E2%80%9D-%E2%88%88-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-%E2%89%A0-%E2%80%9Cculture%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cbooks%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%9Cwords%E2%80%9D-0" title="Hey someone should do an Ngram on the word Ngram" target="_blank">all the discussion here about Ngrams</a>, I want to offer a few spontaneous speculations based on a <a href="http://web.mit.edu/piantado/www/papers/PNAS-2011-Piantadosi-1012551108.pdf" target="_blank" title="Word Lengths are Optimized for Efficient Communication - PDF!">new paper</a> that's the talk of at least a couple of neighborhoods in the town.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/meter-fleet-cahoots-subject-matter#comments Alexander Pope body English Browning Dickinson Edward Gibson Freud Harry Tily information theory Markov Chains meter Milton rhyme Shakespeare Spenser Steven T. Piantadosi Wordsworth Wyatt Zipf&#039;s Law http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1139 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:19:40 -0800 William Flesch 1139 at http://arcade.stanford.edu