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

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 structur...

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Autores principales:	Jin Cong, Haitao Liu
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:fb3f9065b510423cb20de2fa8f436f692021-12-02T20:07:36ZLinguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0259818https://doaj.org/article/fb3f9065b510423cb20de2fa8f436f692021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259818https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203The 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 weights. Quantitative analysis of the network models has shown that a Chinese two-character word can highlight itself as a two-node island, i.e., a cohesive sub-network with its two component characters co-occurring more frequently than they co-occur with the other characters. This highlighting mechanism may play a vital role in the formation and acquisition of two-character words in actual language use. Moreover, this mechanism may also throw some light on the emergence of other structural phenomena (with the chunking of specific linguistic units as their basis).Jin CongHaitao LiuPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 16, Iss 11, p e0259818 (2021)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Jin Cong Haitao Liu Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.
description	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 weights. Quantitative analysis of the network models has shown that a Chinese two-character word can highlight itself as a two-node island, i.e., a cohesive sub-network with its two component characters co-occurring more frequently than they co-occur with the other characters. This highlighting mechanism may play a vital role in the formation and acquisition of two-character words in actual language use. Moreover, this mechanism may also throw some light on the emergence of other structural phenomena (with the chunking of specific linguistic units as their basis).
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title	Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.
title_short	Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.
title_full	Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.
title_fullStr	Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.
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Linguistic emergence from a networks approach: The case of modern Chinese two-character words.

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