Applying network theory to fables: complexity in Slovene belles-lettres for different age groups

Words are the building blocks of human communication. They are arranged in sentences in a non-trivial and universal way, which implies the existence of fundamental organizational principles that have shaped language development. One of the fundamental examples is the Zipf’s law, which says that the frequency of word occurrence is roughly an inverse power-law function of its rank. In our article, we study the structure and complexity of texts in Slovene belles-lettres, with an emphasis on evaluating the differences in the texts for different age groups. We show that the co-occurrence connectivity of words forms a complex and heterogeneous network that is characterized by an efficient transfer of information. Moreover, we show

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