Attractors at the Linguistic Levels: A Theoretical Approach to Complex Linguistics

Abstract

Linguistics is an area in constant development, even more so in a historical period in which new approaches and new linguistic changes have emerged. Traditionally, language is related to fixed rules and structures, however, the most recent proposals indicate that its morphogenesis evolves not always linearly, but chaotically. In this aspect, this descriptive essay inserts the phenomenon of language into the field of complexity from the theory of catastrophes, to expose the issue of strange attractors at the linguistic levels: phonetic, syntactic and lexical. The essay is descriptive in nature and based on a systematic review of specialized literature on the subject. Consequently, it proposes a qualitative theoretical base focused on the three aforementioned points, with particular situations for each section. It is concluded that attractors are found in the linguistic areas of greatest instability such as: allophones, intonations, grammatical gender and prepositions. The above allows us to generate a route for both research and language teaching. It should be noted that, in our Nicaraguan national context, there is still no research from this approach, so this document presents a first approach.