Fig 1.
Construction of the multiplex language network.
Schematic illustration of the construction of a multiplex language network for English based on an orthographic-distance and phonological-distance similarity networks. In the orthographic and phonological layers nodes are words and there is a link if the Damerau-Levenshtein distance is smaller than a given threshold ℓ. Notice that words in the phonological layer were translated into the International Phonetic Alphabet and then the DL was calculated.
Fig 2.
Degree distributions for phonological and orthographic networks and several DL distance thresholds.
a) Phonological (English). b) Phonological (Spanish). c) Orthographic (English). d) Orthographic (Spanish). For a better comparison of the data, the insets of each plot show the corresponding degree distribution for normalized degrees, where k* = max(log(k)).
Table 1.
The basic topological network quantities are listed for the ortographic (GO) and phonological (GP) networks.