Mathematical linguistics

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Example Applications of Mathematical Linguistics

Parse tree

Zipf's Law

Semantic network

Modal Logic

Phonological rule

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Mathematical linguistics is the application of mathematics to model phenomena and solve problems in general linguistics and theoretical linguistics. Mathematical linguistics has a significant amount of overlap with computational linguistics.