Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1530 g
Word Length Studies and Related Issues
Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1530 g
Reihe: Text, Speech and Language Technology
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4067-2
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik
- Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
Weitere Infos & Material
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.
