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Article: New complex systems study findings recently were reported by B. Corominasmurtra and co-researchers.
- Article from:
- Robotics & Machine Learning
- Article date:
- August 24, 2009
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"Language development in children provides a window to understand the transition from protolanguage to language. Here we present the first analysis of the emergence of syntax in terms of complex networks," investigators in Barcelona, Spain report.
"A previously unreported, sharp transition is shown to occur around two years of age from a (pre-syntactic) tree-like structure to a scale-free, small world syntax network. The development of these networks thus reveals a nonlinear dynamical pattern where the global topology of syntax graphs shifts from a hierarchical, tree-like pattern, to a scale-free organization. Such change seems difficult to be explained under a ...