Toward a General Calculus of Phonemic Distribution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2863341 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Harary, Herbert H Paper |
| Year | 1957 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 143 |
| Publication date | 1957-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/410727 |
| OpenAlex | W2330861590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In recent years there have appeared in linguistic publications a number of explicit references to the methodology and concepts of mathematical logic. In the abstract of one provocative article, Martin Joos writes, 'Physicists describe speech with continuous mathematics, such as Fourier analysis or the autocorrelation function. Linguists describe language instead, using a discontinuous or discrete mathematics called “linguistics”.' Joos spells out what he means by the identification 'linguistics—discrete mathematics' at a number of points in his article. ‘Ordinary mathematical techniques fall mostly into two classes, the continuous (e.g. the infinitesimal calculus) and the discrete or discontinuous (e.g. finite group theory). Now it will turn out that the mathematics called “linguistics” belongs in the second class. It does not even make any compromise with continuity as does statistics, or infinite-group theory. Linguistics is a quantum mechanics in the most extreme sense. All continuity, all possibilities of infinitesimal gradation, are shoved outside of linguistics in one direction or the other’ (702)
Calculus (dental) · Distribution (mathematics) · Linguistics · Mathematical analysis · Computer Science · Mathematics · Medicine · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Speech and Audio Processing
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1965 - 2024 (60) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |