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Contributions to the Science of Text and Language Word Length Studies and Related Issues /

This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor’s preface. The book’s first chapter is an e...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Grzybek, Peter (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
Edición:1st ed. 2007.
Colección:Text, Speech and Language Technology ; 31
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introductory Remarks: On the Science of Language in Light of the Language of Science
  • History and Methodology of Word Length Studies
  • Information Content of Words in Texts
  • Zero-Syllablewords in Determiningword Length
  • Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Contentwords and function words
  • On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, Andword Frequencies in Slovenian
  • Text Corpus as an Abstract Data Structure
  • About Word Length Distribution
  • The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath's Law
  • Towards the Foundations of Menzerath's Law
  • Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages
  • Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text Analyses
  • Word Length and Word Frequency
  • Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond
  • About Word Length Counting in Serbian
  • Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower Sorbian Newspaper Texts
  • Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws.