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Some Ghosts that Arise in a Spliced Linguistic String: Evidence from Catalan

In: Where Mathematics, Computer Science, Linguistics and Biology Meet

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  • Gemma Bel-Enguix

    (Rovira i Virgili University, Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Department of Romance Philologies, Faculty of Arts)

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DNA recombination methods used up to now to generate formal languages can also be applied to the manipulation of natural language because of the biological similarity between the two systems. But if we want to formalize natural language according to parameters of molecular combinations we find that its behaviour has specific features in the linguistic field. One of these distinctive characteristics is that in the result of the recombination of two linguistic sequences some new elements appear which were not involved in any of the initial strings. In this article we study the nature, regularities and behaviour of those elements, named ghosts, when carrying out a splicing.

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  • Gemma Bel-Enguix, 2001. "Some Ghosts that Arise in a Spliced Linguistic String: Evidence from Catalan," Springer Books, in: Carlos Martín-Vide & Victor Mitrana (ed.), Where Mathematics, Computer Science, Linguistics and Biology Meet, chapter 0, pages 25-35, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-94-015-9634-3_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9634-3_3
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