A statistical linguistic analysis of American English / A. Hood Roberts.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, A. Hood (Aaron Hood), 1928- author.

Series:

Janua Linguarum. Series Practica

Janua Linguarum. Series Practica ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language.

English language--Word frequency.

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 p.) : Num. figs.

Edition:

Reprint 2021

Place of Publication:

The Netherlands : Mouton & Co., [1965]

Language Note:

In English.

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

CONTENTS

I. PIONEERS IN WORD COUNTING

II. GENERAL PLAN OF THE PRESENT STUDY

III. PREPARATORY WORK

IV. PROCESSING THE DATA

V. RESULTS OF THE INVESTIGATION

VI. PREVIOUS STUDIES OF SPEECH SOUNDS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APPENDICES

I. ETYMOLOGICAL COMPOSITION OF ENGLISH

II. RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF SEGMENTAL PHONEMES

III. RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF VOWELS

IV. RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF CONSONANTS AND SEMIVOWELS

V. PHONEME PROPORTIONS BY NUMBER AND FREQUENCY FOR EACH DECILE

VI. WORD LENGTH IN PHONEMES

VII. WORD LENGTH IN SYLLABLES

VIII. JOINT FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION OF WORD LENGTH BY SYLLABLE AND PHONEME NUMBER

IX. CANONICAL FORMS OF CONSONANT, VOWEL, SEMIVOWEL

X. CANONICAL FORMS BY MANNER OF ARTICULATION OF PHONEMES

XI. CANONICAL FORMS BY PLACE OF PRODUCTION OF PHONEMES

XII. TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITIES FOR SEQUENCES OF TWO PHONEMES

XIII. TRANSITIONAL PROBABILITIES FOR WORD-INITIAL PHONEME SEQUENCES

XIV. ENTROPY AND REDUNDANCY BASED ON PHONEME FEQUENCIES BY DECILE

XV. ENTROPY AND REDUNDANCY BASED ON WORD LENGTH IN PHONEMES BY DECILE

XVI. ENTROPY AND REDUNDANCY BASED ON WORD LENGTH IN SYLLABLES BY DECILE

XVII. INITIAL CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS

XVIII. INTERVOCALIC CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS INCLUDING PRE-CONSONANTAL OFF-GLIDES / y, h, w /

XIX. FINAL CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS INCLUDING PRE-CONSONANTAL OFF-GLIDES / y, h, w /

XX. INTERVOCALIC CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS

XXI. FINAL CONSONANTS AND CONSONANT CLUSTERS

XXII. PHONEMIC TRANSCRIPTION OF THE FIRST DECILE

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783112416426

3112416422

OCLC:

1243311585