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SUBMITTER: Yang T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5029871 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Tianguang T Gu Changgui C Yang Huijie H
PloS one 20160920 9
A sentence is the natural unit of language. Patterns embedded in series of sentences can be used to model the formation and evolution of languages, and to solve practical problems such as evaluating linguistic ability. In this paper, we apply de-trended fluctuation analysis to detect long-range correlations embedded in sentence series from A Story of the Stone, one of the greatest masterpieces of Chinese literature. We identified a weak long-range correlation, with a Hurst exponent of 0.575±0.00 ...[more]