A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System
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 “a...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-9ad8e271afa341caaadf6b166ade15be2025-02-03T01:26:33ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262017-01-01201710.1155/2017/92125389212538A Language as a Self-Organized Critical SystemVasilii A. Gromov0Anastasia M. Migrina1School of Applied Mathematics, Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, Gagarina Av. 72, Dnipropetrovsk 49010, UkraineSchool of Applied Mathematics, Oles Honchar Dnipropetrovsk National University, Gagarina Av. 72, Dnipropetrovsk 49010, UkraineA 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.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/9212538 |
| spellingShingle | Vasilii A. Gromov Anastasia M. Migrina A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System Complexity |
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