Language Diversity across the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks

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dc.creatorChoudhury, Monojit
dc.creatorMukherjee, Animesh
dc.creatorBasu, Anupam
dc.creatorGanguly, Niloy
dc.creatorGarg, Ashish
dc.creatorJalan, Vaibhav
dc.date2009-04-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:01:41Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:01:41Z
dc.descriptionn this paper, we attempt to explain the emergence of the linguistic diversity that exists across the consonant inventories of some of the major language families of the world through a complex network based growth model. There is only a single parameter for this model that is meant to introduce a small amount of randomness in the otherwise preferential attachment based growth process. The experiments with this model parameter indicates that the choice of consonants among the languages within a family are far more preferential than it is across the families. The implications of this result are twofold -- (a) there is an innate preference of the speakers towards acquiring certain linguistic structures over others and (b) shared ancestry propels the stronger preferential connection between the languages within a family than across them. Furthermore, our observations indicate that this parameter might bear a correlation with the period of existence of the language families under investigation.
dc.descriptionIn EACL 2009 Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Computational Language Acquisition
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1289
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1289
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/226229
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.subjectComputational Physics
dc.subjectPhysics and Society
dc.titleLanguage Diversity across the Consonant Inventories: A Study in the Framework of Complex Networks
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