Japanese Kanji characters are small-world connected through shared components

Mark Jeronimus; Sil Westerveld; Cees van Leeuwen; Sandjai Bhulai; Daan van den Berg

Japanese Kanji characters are small-world connected through shared components

Mark Jeronimus, Sil Westerveld, Cees van Leeuwen, Sandjai Bhulai, Daan van den Berg

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We investigate the connectivity within different incremental sets of Japanese Kanji characters. Individual characters constitute the vertices in the network, components shared between them provide their edges. We find the resulting networks to have a high clustering coefficient and a low average path length, characterizing them as small worlds. We examine the statistical significance of these findings and the role of the degree distributions. We review the evidence that the small-world topologies of these networks are due to the successive elimination of components in the writing system and discuss the implications of the results for language evolution.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	DATA ANALYTICS 2017 : The Sixth International Conference on Data Analytics
Editors	Sandjai Bhulai, Dimitris Kardaras
Publisher	IARIA
Pages	53-58
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781612086033
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Japanese Kanji characters are small-world connected through shared components. / Jeronimus, Mark; Westerveld, Sil; van Leeuwen, Cees et al.
DATA ANALYTICS 2017 : The Sixth International Conference on Data Analytics. ed. / Sandjai Bhulai; Dimitris Kardaras. IARIA, 2017. p. 53-58.

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