Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years
Joint Authors
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-02-08
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
We investigate how short and long-range word length correlations evolve in Chinese narrative texts.
The results show that, for short-range word length correlations, no significant linear evolutionary trend was found.
But for long-range correlations, there are two opposite tendencies for two different regimes: the Hurst exponent of small-scale (box size n ranges from 10 to 100) word length correlations decreases over time, and the exponent of large-scale (box size n ranges from 101 to 1000) shows an increasing tendency.
The increase of word length is corroborated as an essential regularity of word evolution in written Chinese.
Further analyses show that a significant correlation coefficient is obtained between Hurst exponents from the small-scale correlations and mean word length across time.
These indicate that word length correlation evolution possesses different self-adaptive mechanisms in terms of different scales of distances between words.
We speculate that the increase of word length and sentence length in written Chinese may account for this phenomenon, in terms of both the social-cultural aspects and the self-adapting properties of language structures.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Chen, Heng& Liu, Haitao. 2018. Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years. Complexity،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1136703
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Chen, Heng& Liu, Haitao. Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years. Complexity No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1136703
American Medical Association (AMA)
Chen, Heng& Liu, Haitao. Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years. Complexity. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1136703
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1136703