The Mathematical Structure of Language Patterns

"The Mathematical Structure of Language Patterns" provides a comprehensive compilation, description, and discussion of recent advancements on quantitative linguistics carried out from the perspective of complex systems. It provides an overview of the emergence and construction of linguistic structures, addressing those concepts that have become the key ideas of complexity: order and entropy, information, correlation, self-organization, network patterns, evolution, and strategy. The focus of quantitative linguistics is to detect, characterize, and explain the patterns of language by means of mathematical tools. The last two decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the interest of physicists and applied mathematicians on language, and it is not surprising that this explosion was parallel to the expansion of the interest in complex systems. This book fills the void as a reference book on linguistic studies using the concepts and techniques of the field of complexity.