This paper presents the results of our study of a complex process of the emergence and normalization of word spaces in Latin and Cyrillic scripts. We have identified the boundaries and stages of the word space emergence process and es-tablished that the process was self-organizing during certain periods and was controlled artificially during other periods. The results of this research can be applied in the field of theoretical linguistics, in particular, for solving the word existence problem which is central to Indo-European linguistics.
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