Recent contributions to quantitative linguistics / edited by Arjuna Tuzzi ; Martina Benešová ; Jan Macutek.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tuzzi, Arjuna, editor.

Benešová, Martina, 1975- editor.

Mačutek, Ján, editor.

Series:

Quantitative linguistics ; 0179-3616 v. 70.

Quantitative linguistics, 0179-3616 ; Volume 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics--Statistical methods.

Linguistics.

Mathematical linguistics.

Physical Description:

vi, 284 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2015]

Summary:

Quantitative Linguistics is a rapidly developing discipline covering more and more areas of linguistic and textological research. The book represents an overview of the state of the art in Quantitative Linguistics, its scope and reach. Some of the topics: linguistic laws, frequency analyses, synergetic models of language, networks, part-of-speech systems, authorship attribution, poly functionality and polysemy, and opinion target identification. Book jacket.

Contents:

Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin / Sergey Andreev Andreev, Sergey 1

Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style / Martina Benešová Benešová, Martina, Denis Birjukov Birjukov, Denis 13

Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts / Martina Benešová Benešová, Martina, Dan Faltýnek Faltýnek, Dan, Lukáš Hadwiger Zámecník Zámecník, Lukáš Hadwiger 27

A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts / Lukasz Debowski Debowski, Lukasz 41

The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology / Sheila Embleton Embleton, Sheila, Dorin Uritescu Uritescu, Dorin, Eric S. Wheeler Wheeler, Eric S. 51

Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts / Ján Macutek Macutek, Ján 63

Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets / George K. Mikros Mikros, George K., Kostas Perifanos Perifanos, Kostas 75

Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics / Sven Naumann Naumann, Sven 89

Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study / Adriana S. Pagano Pagano, Adriana S., Giacomo P. Figueredo Figueredo, Giacomo P., Annabelle Lukin Lukin, Annabelle 103

Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles / Vasiliy Poddubnyy Poddubnyy, Vasiliy, Anatoly Polikarpov Polikarpov, Anatoly 115

Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals / Andrij Rovenchak Rovenchak, Andrij 125

The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences / Haruko Sanada Sanada, Haruko 139

Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches / Jacques Savoy Savoy, Jacques 153

Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization / Betsy Sneller Sneller, Betsy 165

Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English / Petra C. Steiner Steiner, Petra C. 181

Tracing the History of Words / Arjuna Tuzzi Tuzzi, Arjuna, Reinhard Köhler Köhler, Reinhard 203

Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems / Relja Vulanovic Vulanovic, Relja, Tatjana Hrubik-Vulanovic Hrubik-Vulanovic, Tatjana 215

Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters / Yanru Wang Wang, Yanru, Xinying Chen Chen, Xinying 229

On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity / Aris Xanthos Xanthos, Aris, Guillaume Guex Guex, Guillaume 241

The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts / Makoto Yamazaki Yamazaki, Makoto 255.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110419870

3110419874

OCLC:

921310757