How does language change as a lexical network? An investigation based on written Chinese word co-occurrence networks.

PLoS One · 2018 · PMC5830315 · PMID 29489837

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

According to Fig 4 , the average path length showed an increasing trend, while the clustering coefficient showed a decreasing tendency.

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