Are there fractals in sign language?

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15410%2F24%3A73625900" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15410/24:73625900 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/61989592:15210/24:73625900 RIV/61989592:15310/24:73625900

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007792400972X" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096007792400972X</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2024.115420" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.chaos.2024.115420</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are there fractals in sign language?

Original language description

Sign language is analyzed from the perspective of Menzerath-Altmann law (MAL). In reply to a question posed in the title, this study involves a comprehensive fractal analysis of a concrete Czech sign language utterance at multiple linguistic levels. Through this examination, a novel linguistic level, the so-called ‘‘pseudosyllables’’, is unearthed and subjected to thorough investigation. While the results of this experimental exploration do not conclusively confirm fractal structure in sign language overall via an isomorphism between the fractal dimension formula and MAL, we undeniably detect the existence of pseudofractal objects of sign language in the sense of the modified (whence the prefix ‘‘pseudo’’) conjecture by Hřebíček on the basis of our arguments, particularly linked to this newly identified linguistic level.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10102 - Applied mathematics

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA17-18149S" target="_blank" >GA17-18149S: Theoretical Basis for Teaching Czech Sign Language Tested through Quantitative Linguistic Methods</a><br>

Continuities

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

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

CHAOS SOLITONS &amp; FRACTALS

ISSN

0960-0779

e-ISSN

1873-2887

Volume of the periodical

187

Issue of the periodical within the volume

OCT

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

"115420-1"-"115420-10"

UT code for WoS article

001301622300001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85201762467