Synergetic Linguistics: Do We Need Better Explanatory Mechanism?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F15%3A10313983" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/15:10313983 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/glot-2015-0016" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/glot-2015-0016</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/glot-2015-0016" target="_blank" >10.1515/glot-2015-0016</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Synergetic Linguistics: Do We Need Better Explanatory Mechanism?

Original language description

The article is a short reaction to the Zámečník's paper The nature of the explanation in the synergetic linguistics (2014) which claims that the synergetic linguistics lacks full-fledged explanation and praises the Menzerath-Altmann Law for its explanatory power. However, this paper shows that the synergetic linguistic explanatory mechanism is comparable to the mechanism of Menzerath-Altmann Law and that it aims to follow the explanatory logic of white-box models in other sciences like ecology. The quantitative linguistic laws in general often lack clear information about the known principles from which they are derived, what stochastic process they represent and what the interpretation of their parameters is, but it does not mean that they are intrinsically wrong and that we are in a critical need for a paradigm shift.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA13-28220S" target="_blank" >GA13-28220S: Structure of culture: Arabic and Islamic culture in prism of corpus linguistics</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Glottotheory

ISSN

1337-7892

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

291-298

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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