DocumentCode :
2702027
Title :
Occurrence of Zipf´s law of transition in the processes of learning the language
Author :
Kitabayashi, Nobuhide
Author_Institution :
RIKEN, Inst. of Phys. & Chem. Res., Saitama, Japan
fYear :
2000
fDate :
2000
Firstpage :
283
Lastpage :
286
Abstract :
The relationship between the development of learning language by infants and Zipf´s law is addressed in this study. There are several stages in the development of language learning. The author focuses on the transition from a particular stage to another. For example, when an infant begins to use a new word, there is a transition from coarse-graining to fine-graining in terms of recognizing his/her own environment by words. Before a new word is used, its meaning and/or its indicated matter is outside of the infant´s recognition. There is a great gap between the fine-grained world and coarse-graining inside. The transition following Zipf´s law is reported
Keywords :
biocybernetics; natural languages; psychology; Zipf law; coarse-graining; fine-graining; infants; language learning; natural language; Pediatrics;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
SICE 2000. Proceedings of the 39th SICE Annual Conference. International Session Papers
Conference_Location :
Iizuka
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9805-X
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SICE.2000.889695
Filename :
889695
Link To Document :
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