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Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis
Joint Authors
Source
Journal of Applied Mathematics
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-9, 9 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-07-13
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
9
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Polysyllablization, closely related to phonetics, semantics, and syntactics, is one of the fundamental trends in the development of Chinese lexis.
However, with lots of uncertainties in the historical evolution of Chinese language, the quantitative modeling and reconstruction of polysyllablization remain open questions.
Based on the Comprehensive Dictionary of Chinese Words, a mapping from the words to their time of occurrence is built.
With the inverse mapping on random samples, the newly produced words with different numbers of syllables in different time periods are obtained.
Finally the total quadratic variation minimization model is adopted to estimate the trend of polysyllablization.
As a novel exploration in the computational linguistics, the results agree with the stage division of historical Chinese and answer some difficult questions related to polysyllablization in a quantitative manner.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Qiu, Bing& Li, Jie. 2014. Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis. Journal of Applied Mathematics،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-447465
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Qiu, Bing& Li, Jie. Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis. Journal of Applied Mathematics No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-447465
American Medical Association (AMA)
Qiu, Bing& Li, Jie. Reconstruction of Uncertain Historical Evolution of the Polysyllablization of Chinese Lexis. Journal of Applied Mathematics. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-9.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-447465
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-447465