Project Abstract
This interdisciplinary project aims at the creation of mathematical and computational models for the description of the development of human language. Its target is to apply in the linguistic research methods and practices that emanate from the field of Statistical Physics (using Monte Carlo simulations) and Evolutionary Biology. The study will be completed in three stages:
1. Initially, basic phenomenological elements of language will be studied, with emphasis in the Greek language. They will be used to locate and interpret characteristic laws that are followed in the languages. (For example, the Zipf law). 2. In the second stage simulation methods will be used to study the interaction between different languages and its effect in Population Dynamics of biological systems. 3. In the third part a complete formulation of linguistic development in analogy with that of Statistical Mechanics will be attempted. |
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List of Participants
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