A language as a self-organized critical system (Q1694168)
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A language as a self-organized critical system (English)
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1 February 2018
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Summary: 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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natural language
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self-organized critical system
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word cooccurrence graph
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statistical characteristics
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