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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Chen H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830315 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20180228 2
Language is a complex adaptive system, but how does it change? For investigating this process, four diachronic Chinese word co-occurrence networks have been built based on texts that were written during the last 2,000 years. By comparing the network indicators that are associated with the hierarchical features in language networks, we learn that the hierarchy of Chinese lexical networks has indeed evolved over time at three different levels. The connections of words at the micro level are contin ...[more]