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Network model of human language

Physics and Society 2009-11-13 v1 Computational Physics

Abstract

The phenomenon of human language is widely studied from various points of view. It is interesting not only for social scientists, antropologists or philosophers, but also for those, interesting in the network dynamics. In several recent papers word web, or language as a graph has been investigated. In this paper I revise recent studies of syntactical word web. I present a model of growing network in which such processes as node addition, edge rewiring and new link creation are taken into account. I argue, that this model is a satisfactory minimal model explaining measured data.

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@article{arxiv.0709.3045,
  title  = {Network model of human language},
  author = {Maria Markosova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.3045},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 1 fig, to appear in Physica A

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