title: An Observational Framework to the Zipfian Analysis among Different Languages: Studies to Indonesian Ethnic Biblical Texts    
creator: Situngkir, Hokky
subject: Statistical Models
subject: Language
subject: Computational Linguistics
subject: Complexity Theory
subject: Psycholinguistics
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Comparative Linguistics
subject: Historical Linguistics
subject: Philosophy of Language
subject: Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
subject: Syntax
description: The paper introduces the used of Zipfian statistics to observe the human languages by using the same (meaning) corpus/corpora but different in grammatical and structural utterances. We used biblical texts since they contain corpuses that have been most widely and carefully translated into many languages. The idea is to reduce the possibility of noise came from the  meaning of the texts in distinctive language. The result is that the robustness of the Zipfian law is observable and some statistical differences are discovered between English and widely used national and several ethnic languages in Indonesia. The paper ends by modestly propose further possible framework in interdisciplinary approaches to human language evolution.
date: 2007-02
type: Departmental Technical Report
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/5481/1/2007a.pdf
identifier:   Situngkir, Hokky  (2007) An Observational Framework to the Zipfian Analysis among Different Languages: Studies to Indonesian Ethnic Biblical Texts.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/5481/