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Computer Research and Modeling, 2011 Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages 103–124 (Mi crm552)

This article is cited in 2 papers

MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION

Dissipative stochastic dynamic model of language signs evolution

V. V. Poddubnya, A. A. Polikarpovb

a Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin av., Tomsk, 634050, Russia
b Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Abstract: We offer the dissipative stochastic dynamic model of the language sign evolution, satisfying to the principle of the least action, one of fundamental variational principles of the Nature. The model conjectures the Poisson nature of the birth flow of language signs and the exponential distribution of their associative-semantic potential (ASP). The model works with stochastic difference equations of the special type for dissipative processes. The equation for momentary polysemy distribution and frequency-rank distribution drawn from our model do not differs significantly (by Kolmogorov–Smirnov's test) from empirical distributions, got from main Russian and English explanatory dictionaries as well as frequency dictionaries of them.

Keywords: language sign, evolution, associative semantic potential, sign meanings, polysemy, frequency rankdistribution, dissipative stochastic dynamic model.

UDC: 519.765

Received: 17.03.2011

DOI: 10.20537/2076-7633-2011-3-2-103-124



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