Quantum field theory and the linguistic Minimalist Program: a remarkable isomorphism

8th International Workshop DICE2016: Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics

物理学;力学

Piattelli-Palmarini, M.^1 ; Vitiello, G.^2

Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona, Tucson

AZ, United States^1

Dipartimento di Fisica E.R.Caianiello, INFN, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (SA)

84084, Italy^2

关键词: Algebraic formalisms;    Fibonacci sequences;    Formation process;    Labeling algorithms;    Linguistic features;    Minimalist program;    Quantum field theory;    Sentence structures;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012016/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/880/1/012016

学科分类：力学，机械学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

By resorting to recent results, we show that an isomorphism exist between linguistic features of the Minimalist Program and the quantum field theory formalism of condensed matter physics. Specific linguistic features which admit a representation in terms of the many-body algebraic formalism are the unconstrained nature of recursive Merge, the operation of the Labeling Algorithm, the difference between pronounced and un-pronounced copies of elements in a sentence and the build-up of the Fibonacci sequence in the syntactic derivation of sentence structures. The collective dynamical nature of the formation process of Logical Forms leading to the individuation of the manifold of concepts and the computational self-consistency of languages are also discussed.