A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System
Joint Authors
Gromov, Vasilii A.
Migrina, Anastasia M.
Source
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-7, 7 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-11-19
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
7
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
A natural language (represented by texts generated by native speakers) is considered as a complex system, and the type thereof to which natural languages belong is ascertained.
Namely, the authors hypothesize that a language is a self-organized critical system and that the texts of a language are “avalanches” flowing down its word cooccurrence graph.
The respective statistical characteristics for distributions of the number of words in the texts of English and Russian languages are calculated; the samples were constructed on the basis of corpora of literary texts and of a set of social media messages (as a substitution to the oral speech).
The analysis found that the number of words in the texts obeys power-law distribution.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gromov, Vasilii A.& Migrina, Anastasia M.. 2017. A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System. Complexity،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1143654
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gromov, Vasilii A.& Migrina, Anastasia M.. A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System. Complexity No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-7.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Gromov, Vasilii A.& Migrina, Anastasia M.. A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System. Complexity. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-7.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1143654
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1143654