ISBN:
9781402040689
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Text, Speech and Language Technology 31
DDC:
415.9
Keywords:
Linguistics
;
Computational Linguistics
;
Computer science
;
Konferenzschrift 2002
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Wortlänge
;
Wortlänge
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
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 extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies. The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
Description / Table of 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
International conference proceedings
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-4068-7
URL:
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