About the Authors

Eduardo G. Altmann

Affiliations Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

Janet B. Pierrehumbert

Affiliations Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Linguistics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Adilson E. Motter

motter@northwestern.edu

Affiliations Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EGA JBP AEM. Performed the experiments: EGA. Analyzed the data: EGA JBP AEM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EGA JBP AEM. Wrote the paper: EGA JBP AEM.