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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math CognitionMachine Versus Structure of Language via Statistical Universals

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition: Machine Versus Structure of Language via... [This chapter reconsiders natural language through the two notions of a machine and a structure, which are important keys in postmodernist philosophy. The emergence of big data has revealed new statistical universals, ---i.e., a structure --- of language: namely, several different power laws that hold for any linguistic corpus and even beyond. The essential problem of these power laws is that it is unknown why they hod all together. Studies have also been conducted seeking mechanisms ---i.e., machines--- to produce a sequence that fulfills the statistical laws. By situating the statistical universals in the contraposition of a machine and a structure, this chapter attempts to provide an interpretation, and moreover, to reconsider the singular nature of language.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math CognitionMachine Versus Structure of Language via Statistical Universals

Part of the Mathematics in Mind Book Series
Editors: Danesi, Marcel
Tanaka-Ishii, Kumiko
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Math Cognition — Sep 15, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
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978-3-030-22536-0
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79 –97
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10.1007/978-3-030-22537-7_4
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[This chapter reconsiders natural language through the two notions of a machine and a structure, which are important keys in postmodernist philosophy. The emergence of big data has revealed new statistical universals, ---i.e., a structure --- of language: namely, several different power laws that hold for any linguistic corpus and even beyond. The essential problem of these power laws is that it is unknown why they hod all together. Studies have also been conducted seeking mechanisms ---i.e., machines--- to produce a sequence that fulfills the statistical laws. By situating the statistical universals in the contraposition of a machine and a structure, this chapter attempts to provide an interpretation, and moreover, to reconsider the singular nature of language.]

Published: Sep 15, 2019

Keywords: Postmodernist machine and structure; Language statistics; Zipf’s law; Taylor’s law; Universals; Rhizomes

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