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Universality and Complexity in Natural Languages: Mechanistic and Emergent

2024-02-23

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Human language is a prime example of a complex system characterized by multiple scales of description. Understanding its origins and distinctiveness has sparked investigations with very different approaches, ranging from the Universal Grammar to statistical analyses of word usage, all of which highlight, from different angles, the potential existence of universal patterns shared by all languages. Yet, a cohesive p...

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93192708-304f-558d-9f64-f5ebdfedc81f
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10.20944/preprints202402.1330.v1
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