The language of chaos

被引:23
作者
Bilotta, Eleonora [1 ]
Pantano, Pietro
机构
[1] Univ Calabria, Dept Linguist, I-87030 Commenda Di Rende, Italy
[2] Univ Calabria, Dept Math, I-87030 Commenda Di Rende, Italy
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIFURCATION AND CHAOS | 2006年 / 16卷 / 03期
关键词
Chua's oscillator; natural language; artificial languages; evolution;
D O I
10.1142/S0218127406014988
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
This work presents a linguistic approach to the understanding of chaos. The idea comes from our work on translating into sounds and music the complexity of chaotic systems, as with Chua's attractors. Therefore, working with sounds, we have used a standardization criterion in order to detect only some of the features of the richness of chaos. This method involves the selection of a limited number of sounds, which, in turn, allow for the creation of other components of the system at different levels of organization, as with natural language. Thus, phonetic, morphological, syntactic and semantic levels, linked by a grammar of an '' artificial chaotic language '' are defined. Each linguistic unit of the artificial language presents networks of interrelated phenomena since for each of them, it is possible to detect its path length, tracing a graph of the mutual relationships of the system's components. We found that there is interaction among the different levels of the chaotic language. Furthermore, some traits of the dynamics of the evolution of language in human infants are found in the main routes to chaos. In this emergent dynamics, mutations, struggle for the fittest, natural selection, and the relative distribution of linguistic entities in genetic landscapes are observed. On the basis of this, a possible bridge of connection between the physical and the mental worlds may be developed.
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页码:523 / 557
页数:35
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