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A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System

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  • Vasilii A. Gromov
  • Anastasia M. Migrina

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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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  • Vasilii A. Gromov & Anastasia M. Migrina, 2017. "A Language as a Self-Organized Critical System," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2017, pages 1-7, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:hin:complx:9212538
    DOI: 10.1155/2017/9212538
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    1. Gromov, Vasilii A. & Dang, Quynh Nhu, 2023. "Semantic and sentiment trajectories of literary masterpieces," Chaos, Solitons & Fractals, Elsevier, vol. 175(P1).

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