Words are fundamental linguistic units that connect thoughts and things through meaning. However, words do not appear independently in a text sequence. The existence of syntactic rules induces correlations among neighboring words. Using an ordinal pattern approach, we present an analysis of lexical statistical connections for 11 major languages. We find that the diverse manners that languages utilize to express word relations give rise to unique pattern structural distributions. Furthermore, fluctuations of these pattern distributions for a given language can allow us to determine both the historical period when the text was written and its author. Taken together, our results emphasize the relevance of ordinal time series analysis in linguistic typology, historical linguistics, and stylometry.
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March 2023
Research Article|
March 14 2023
Ordinal analysis of lexical patterns
Special Collection:
Ordinal Methods: Concepts, Applications, New Developments and Challenges
David Sánchez
;
David Sánchez
(Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing)
1
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC)
, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Luciano Zunino
;
Luciano Zunino
a)
(Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing)
2
Centro de Investigaciones Ópticas (CONICET La Plata-CIC-UNLP)
, 1897 Gonnet, La Plata, Argentina
3
Departamento de Ciencias Básicas, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP)
, 1900 La Plata, Argentina
a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: lucianoz@ciop.unlp.edu.ar
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Juan De Gregorio
;
Juan De Gregorio
(Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing)
1
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC)
, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Raúl Toral
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Raúl Toral
(Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing)
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Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC)
, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Claudio Mirasso
Claudio Mirasso
(Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing)
1
Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC (UIB-CSIC)
, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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a)Author to whom correspondence should be addressed: lucianoz@ciop.unlp.edu.ar
Note: This paper is part of the Focus Issue on Ordinal Methods: Concepts, Applications, New Developments and Challenges.
Chaos 33, 033121 (2023)
Article history
Received:
December 23 2022
Accepted:
February 20 2023
Citation
David Sánchez, Luciano Zunino, Juan De Gregorio, Raúl Toral, Claudio Mirasso; Ordinal analysis of lexical patterns. Chaos 1 March 2023; 33 (3): 033121. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0139852
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