Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.

ABSTRACT: The models of linguistic networks and their analytical tools constitute a potential methodology for investigating the formation of structural patterns in actual language use. Research with this methodology has just started, which can hopefully shed light on the emergent nature of linguistic structure. This study attempts to employ linguistic networks to investigate the formation of modern Chinese two-character words (as structural units based on the chunking of their component characters) in the actual use of modern Chinese, which manifests itself as continuous streams of Chinese characters. Network models were constructed based on authentic Chinese language data, with Chinese characters as nodes, their co-occurrence relations as directed links, and the co-occurrence frequencies as link we

SUBMITTER: Cong J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8584675 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature