This edition of the CompℹLa meetings, like the previous editions, is aimed at creating a discussion forum within the broad community of quantitative linguists, interdisciplinary physicists, applied mathematicians, computational sociolinguists, and complex systems scientists interested in the study of the many different sides of complexity in language.
Language complexity is a wide subject, which usually relies on methods of dynamical systems and statistical mechanics applied to numerous and heterogeneous linguistic phenomena, from Zipf law, the universal traits of language, and the structure of language to language variation and change and further to the analysis of linguistic big data and social networks’ corpora. This year, in particular, we will devote a part of the meeting to the issue of language as a complex adaptive system and discuss syntax and its evolution and variation.
The meeting remains open cross-disciplinary insights from sociology, biology, physiology, and psychology that can provide precious contributions for the understanding and a more reliable theoretical description of writing, memory, and learning processes. This satellite proposal builds upon the successful previous events CompℹLa2022 (satellite of CCS2022-Mallorca), CompℹLa2023 (Satellite of StatPhys28-Tokyo), and CompℹLa2024 (Satellite of CCS2024-Exeter). We are looking forward to seeing you in CCS2025-Siena in 2025!
Organizers: Els Heinsalu (NICPB, Tallin) Marco Patriarca (NICPB, Tallin) and David Sánchez (IFISC, Mallorca)