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Title Contributions to the science of text and language : word length studies and related issues / edited by Peter Grzybek
Published Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 352 pages) : illustrations
Series Text, speech and language technology ; v. 31
Text, speech, and language technology ; v. 31.
Contents Front Matter; 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-Syllable Words in Determining Word Length; Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Content Words and Function Words; On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, and Word 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 AnalysesWord 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; Back Matter
Summary Contains contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. The contributions range from three linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the study of word length studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Language and languages -- Word frequency -- Congresses
Computational linguistics -- Congresses
Linguistics -- Statistical methods -- Congresses
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) -- Congresses
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology -- Congresses
Computational linguistics.
Linguistics -- Statistical methods.
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology.
computational linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Morphology.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Computational linguistics
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Morphology
Language and languages -- Word frequency
Linguistic analysis (Linguistics)
Linguistics -- Statistical methods
Genre/Form proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.
Form Electronic book
Author Grzybek, Peter
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