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- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright
- © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
- ISBN
- 978-3-030-22536-0
- Pages
- 79 –97
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-22537-7_4
- Publisher site
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Abstract
[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