使用频率分布确定有争议的音素的地位;对西班牙语中的辅音的应用
Deciding the status of controversial phonemes using frequency distributions; an application to semiconsonants in Spanish
摘要：
利用自然语言是复杂系统的事实，本探索性文章提出了一种基于频率分布的直接方法，该方法在决定有问题的音素的状态时可能是有用的，这是语言学中的一个开放问题。其主要观点是，从复杂的角度来看，自然语言可以被视为信息处理机器，并且以某种方式设法设置适当的冗余级别，已经“选择”了语言单位是否是音素，这将反映在频率与等级图的更大平滑度上。对于我们选择研究的特定情况，我们得出的结论是，一方面，将西班牙语半辅音/w/视为与其元音对应物/u/分开的音素是合理的，另一方面，也可能将半辅音/j/视为与其元音对应物/i/分开的音素。由于语言一直是复杂性研究中的一个核心话题，因此，这次讨论还为我们提供了一个机会，让我们在更广泛的复杂系统辩论中深入了解新出现的特性。
英文摘要：
Exploiting the fact that natural languages are complex systems, the present exploratory article proposes a direct method based on frequency distributions that may be useful when making a decision on the status of problematic phonemes, an open problem in linguistics. The main notion is that natural languages, which can be considered from a complex outlook as information processing machines, and which somehow manage to set appropriate levels of redundancy, already "made the choice" whether a linguistic unit is a phoneme or not, and this would be reflected in a greater smoothness in a frequency versus rank graph. For the particular case we chose to study, we conclude that it is reasonable to consider the Spanish semiconsonant /w/ as a separate phoneme from its vowel counterpart /u/, on the one hand, and possibly also the semiconsonant /j/ as a separate phoneme from its vowel counterpart /i/, on the other. As language has been so central a topic in the study of complexity, this discussion grants us, in addition, an opportunity to gain insight into emerging properties in the broader complex systems debate.
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