基于复杂网络框架的辅音库语言多样性研究
Language Diversity across the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks
摘要：
在本文中，我们试图通过一个基于复杂网络的增长模型来解释世界上一些主要语系的辅音库存中存在的语言多样性的出现。这个模型只有一个参数，这意味着在其他基于偏好连接的生长过程中引入少量的随机性。使用该模型参数的实验表明，在一个家族内的语言中辅音的选择远比跨家族的选择更优先。这一结果的含义是双重的-（a）说话者天生倾向于获得某些语言结构，而不是其他语言结构;（b）共同的祖先促使一个家族内的语言之间的优先联系比跨家族的语言之间的优先联系更强。此外，我们的观察表明，这一参数可能承担的调查中的语言家族存在的时间相关。
英文摘要：
n this paper, we attempt to explain the emergence of the linguistic diversity that exists across the consonant inventories of some of the major language families of the world through a complex network based growth model. There is only a single parameter for this model that is meant to introduce a small amount of randomness in the otherwise preferential attachment based growth process. The experiments with this model parameter indicates that the choice of consonants among the languages within a family are far more preferential than it is across the families. The implications of this result are twofold -- (a) there is an innate preference of the speakers towards acquiring certain linguistic structures over others and (b) shared ancestry propels the stronger preferential connection between the languages within a family than across them. Furthermore, our observations indicate that this parameter might bear a correlation with the period of existence of the language families under investigation.
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