Rethinking the Relationship between the Power Law and Hierarchical Structures

ArXi:2505.04984v3 Announce Type: replace Statistical analysis of corpora provides an approach to quantitatively investigate natural languages. This approach has revealed that several power laws consistently emerge across different corpora and languages, suggesting universal mechanisms underlying languages. In particular, the power-law decay of correlations has been interpreted as evidence of underlying hierarchical structures in syntax, semantics, and dis