Comparative Analysis of Networks of Phonologically Similar Words in English and Spanish

Samuel, Arbesman; Strogatz, Steven H.; Vitevitch, Michael S.

dc.contributor.author	Samuel, Arbesman
dc.contributor.author	Strogatz, Steven H.
dc.contributor.author	Vitevitch, Michael S.
dc.date.accessioned	2014-11-21T19:08:19Z
dc.date.available	2014-11-21T19:08:19Z
dc.date.issued	2010-03-02
dc.identifier.citation	Samuel, Arbesman; Strogatz, Steven H.; Vitevitch, Michael S. (2010). "Comparative Analysis of Networks of Phonologically Similar Words in English and Spanish." Entropy, 12(3):327-337. http://www.dx.doi.org/10.3390/e12030327.
dc.identifier.issn	1099-4300
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/15842
dc.description	This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/12/3/327.
dc.description.abstract	Previous network analyses of several languages revealed a unique set of structural characteristics. One of these characteristics—the presence of many smaller components (referred to as islands)—was further examined with a comparative analysis of the island constituents. The results showed that Spanish words in the islands tended to be phonologically and semantically similar to each other, but English words in the islands tended only to be phonologically similar to each other. The results of this analysis yielded hypotheses about language processing that can be tested with psycholinguistic experiments, and offer insight into cross-language differences in processing that have been previously observed.
dc.publisher	MDPI AG
dc.subject	Language network
dc.subject	Comparative analysis
dc.subject	English
dc.subject	Spanish
dc.title	Comparative Analysis of Networks of Phonologically Similar Words in English and Spanish
dc.type	Article
kusw.kuauthor	Vitevitch, Michael S.
kusw.kudepartment	Psychology
kusw.oastatus	fullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi	10.3390/e12030327
kusw.oaversion	Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicy	This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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