Publisher's Synopsis
Human beings is quite unique to this biological world for they are the only organisms known to be capable of thinking, communicating and preserving potentially an infinite number of ideas that form the pillars of modern civilization. It has been argued that language is a dynamic complex adaptive system that has evolved through the process of self-organization to serve the purpose of human communication needs. Linguistics is a set of knowledge which is gained by the application of scientific methods to the study of language phenomena. These limits are stretched a line of clear binder between scientific linguistic study and the study of language that is a non-scientific. Linguistic is the science of language. The complexity of human languages have always attracted the attention of physicists, who have tried to explain several linguistic phenomena through models of physical systems. Like any physical system, a linguistic system (i.e., a language) can be viewed from three different perspectives. On one extreme, a language is a collection of utterances that are produced by the speakers of a linguistic community during the course of their interactions with other speakers of the same community. This is analogous to the microscopic view of a thermodynamic system, where every utterance and its corresponding context contributes to the identity of the language, i.e., the grammar. On the other extreme, a language can be characterized by a set of grammar rules and a vocabulary. This is analogous to a macroscopic view. Sandwiched between these two extremes, one can also conceive of a mesoscopic view of language, where linguistic entities, such as the letters, words or phrases are the basic units and the grammar is an emergent property of the interactions among them. Research in Linguistics Structure and Language Dynamics is intend to investigate the structural properties of language from the perspective of language evolution and thereby, explain the emergence of certain universal characteristics of languages, and those which try to exploit the network based representations to develop certain useful practical systems such as machine translation, information retrieval and summarization systems. Language dynamics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on all processes related to the evolution, emergence, change, competition and extinction of languages. One of the major outcomes from this field of research is that language can be viewed as a complex adaptive dynamical system that evolves through the process of self-organization and self-regulation. Human beings is quite unique to this biological world for they are the only organisms known to be capable of thinking, communicating and preserving potentially an infinite number of ideas that form the pillars of modern civilization. It has been argued that language is a dynamic complex adaptive system that has evolved through the process of self-organization to serve the purpose of human communication needs. Linguistics is a set of knowledge which is gained by the application of scientific methods to the study of language phenomena. These limits are stretched a line of clear binder between scientific linguistic study and the study of language that is a non-scientific. Linguistic is the science of language. The complexity of human languages have always attracted the attention of physicists, who have tried to explain several linguistic phenomena through models of physical systems. Like any physical system, a linguistic system (i.e., a language) can be viewed from three different perspectives. On one extreme, a language is a collection of utterances that are produced by the speakers of a linguistic community during the course of their interactions with other speakers of the same community. This is analogous to the microscopic view of a thermodynamic system, where every utterance and its corresponding context contributes to the identity of the language, i.e., the grammar. On the other extreme, a language can be characterized by a set of grammar rules and a vocabulary. This is analogous to a macroscopic view. Sandwiched between these two extremes, one can also conceive of a mesoscopic view of language, where linguistic entities, such as the letters, words or phrases are the basic units and the grammar is an emergent property of the interactions among them. Research in Linguistics Structure and Language Dynamics is intend to investigate the structural properties of language from the perspective of language evolution and thereby, explain the emergence of certain universal characteristics of languages, and those which try to exploit the network based representations to develop certain useful practical systems such as machine translation, information retrieval and summarization systems. Language dynamics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on all processes related to the evolution, emergence, change, competition and extinction of languages. One of the major outcomes from this field of research is that language can be viewed as a complex adaptive dynamical system that evolves through the process of self-organization and self-regulation. Human beings is quite unique to this biological world for they are the only organisms known to be capable of thinking, communicating and preserving potentially an infinite number of ideas that form the pillars of modern civilization. It has been argued that language is a dynamic complex adaptive system that has evolved through the process of self-organization to serve the purpose of human communication needs. Linguistics is a set of knowledge which is gained by the application of scientific methods to the study of language phenomena. These limits are stretched a line of clear binder between scientific linguistic study and the study of language that is a non-scientific. Linguistic is the science of language. The complexity of human languages have always attracted the attention of physicists, who have tried to explain several linguistic phenomena through models of physical systems. Like any physical system, a linguistic system (i.e., a language) can be viewed from three different perspectives. On one extreme, a language is a collection of utterances that are produced by the speakers of a linguistic community during the course of their interactions with other speakers of the same community. This is analogous to the microscopic view of a thermodynamic system, where every utterance and its corresponding context contributes to the identity of the language, i.e., the grammar. On the other extreme, a language can be characterized by a set of grammar rules and a vocabulary. This is analogous to a macroscopic view. Sandwiched between these two extremes, one can also conceive of a mesoscopic view of language, where linguistic entities, such as the letters, words or phrases are the basic units and the grammar is an emergent property of the interactions among them. Research in Linguistics Structure and Language Dynamics is intend to investigate the structural properties of language from the perspective of language evolution and thereby, explain the emergence of certain universal characteristics of languages, and those which try to exploit the network based representations to develop certain useful practical systems such as machine translation, information retrieval and summarization systems. Language dynamics is a rapidly growing field that focuses on all processes related to the evolution, emergence, change, competition and extinction of languages. One of the major outcomes from this field of research is that language can be viewed as a complex adaptive dynamical system that evolves through the process of self-organization and self-regulation.
