Journal of Physical Studies 15(1), Article 1005 [6 pages] (2011)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.30970/jps.15.1005

DEFINING THERMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS FOR TEXTS FROM WORD RANK-FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS

Andrij Rovenchak¹, Solomija Buk²
¹\,Department for Theoretical Physics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
12 Drahomanov St., Lviv, UA--79005, Ukraine
²\,Department for General Linguistics, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv,
1 Universytetska St., Lviv, UA--79000, Ukraine

We report the results regarding the calculation of a new parameter set obtained from the rank-frequency distribution of texts. The parameters are defined using the analogy between the rank-frequency distribution and the quantum Bose-distribution. The calculations are made for the translations of \textit{The Little Prince}, a novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, into forty languages from different language families. The obtained data suggest the connection between the type of the language grammar and the defined parameters.

PACS number(s): 01.90.+g, 02.60.Ed, 05.30.Ch