Statistical physics of language dynamics
Statistical physics of language dynamics
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DOI：
10.1088/1742-5468/2011/04/p04006
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发表时间：
2011-04-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Tria, Francesca
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作者：
Loreto, Vittorio;Baronchelli, Andrea;Tria, Francesca
语言动力学是一个快速发展的领域，专注于与语言的出现，进化，变化和灭绝有关的所有过程。近年来，语言和意义的自组织和进化研究提出了一种观点，即语言使用者群体可以被看作是一个复杂的动力系统，通过个体之间的来回信号传递，共同解决了建立共享交流框架的问题。我们将回顾过去几年在这一领域取得的一些进展，并强调这一领域潜在的未来研究方向。特别是，一个共同的词汇和一套共享的语言类别的出现将被讨论，作为对应于语言的早期阶段的例子。综合建模在多大程度上是目前正在进行的辩论，在认知科学的贡献将被指出。此外，网络的爆发式增长提供了新的实验框架。它提供了大量的资源，包括新颖的工具和待分析的数据，允许对集体信息和语言动态出现的潜在过程进行定量和大规模分析。
Language dynamics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on all processes related to the emergence, evolution, change and extinction of languages. Recently, the study of self-organization and evolution of language and meaning has led to the idea that a community of language users can be seen as a complex dynamical system, which collectively solves the problem of developing a shared communication framework through the back-and-forth signaling between individuals.We shall review some of the progress made in the past few years and highlight potential future directions of research in this area. In particular, the emergence of a common lexicon and of a shared set of linguistic categories will be discussed, as examples corresponding to the early stages of a language. The extent to which synthetic modeling is nowadays contributing to the ongoing debate in cognitive science will be pointed out. In addition, the burst of growth of the web is providing new experimental frameworks. It makes available a huge amount of resources, both as novel tools and data to be analyzed, allowing quantitative and large-scale analysis of the processes underlying the emergence of a collective information and language dynamics.