TY - BOOK AU - Benešová,Barbora AU - Chen,Xinying AU - Cortelazzo,Michele A. AU - Courtin,Marine AU - Cvrček,Václav AU - Embleton,Sheila AU - Gatti,Franco M.T. AU - Gerdes,Kim AU - González Torre,Iván AU - Hernández-Fernández,Antoni AU - Kahane,Sylvain AU - Kawasaki,Yoshifumi AU - Kelih,Emmerich AU - Köhler,Reinhard AU - Litvinova,Olga A. AU - Litvinova,Tatiana A. AU - Liu,Haitao AU - Lukeš,David AU - Luque,Bartolo AU - María Garrido,Juan AU - Mačutek,Ján AU - Mikros,George K. AU - Milička,Jiří AU - Motalova,Tereza AU - Pawłowski,Adam AU - Pelegrinová,Kateřina AU - Sanada,Haruko AU - Tsuchiyama,Gen AU - Tuzzi,Arjuna AU - Uritescu,Dorin AU - Vulanović,Relja AU - Walkowiak,Tomasz AU - Wang,Yawen AU - Wheeler,Eric S. AU - Yamazaki,Makoto AU - Čech,Radek TI - Quantitative Approaches to Universality and Individuality in Language T2 - Quantitative Linguistics [QL] , SN - 9783110628081 AV - P204 .Q36 2023. PY - 2022///] CY - Berlin, Boston PB - De Gruyter Mouton KW - Comparative linguistics KW - Linguistic universals KW - Korpus Linguistik KW - Quantitative Linguistik KW - Textanalyse KW - Authorship Attribution KW - Corpus Linguistics KW - Quantitative Linguistics KW - Text Analysis N1 - Frontmatter --; Editors’ Foreword --; Contents --; Why does negation of the predicate shorten a clause? --; The co-effect of Menzerath-Altmann law and heavy constituent shift in natural languages --; Does the century matter? Machine learning methods to attribute historical periods in an Italian literary corpus --; Too much of a good thing --; Linguistic laws in Catalan --; Dating and geolocation of medieval and modern Spanish notarial documents using distributed representation --; Cross-modal authorship attribution in Russian texts --; Free or not so free? On stress position in Russian, Slovene, and Ukrainian --; Unpacking lexical intertextuality: Vocabulary shared among texts --; The Menzerath-Altmann law in the syntactic relations of the Chinese language based on Universal Dependencies (UD) --; Statistical tools, automatic taxonomies, and topic modelling in the study of self-promotional mission and vision texts of Polish universities --; Quantitative characteristics of phonological words (stress units) --; Explorative study on the Menzerath- Altmann law regarding style, text length, and distributions of data points --; Quantitative analysis of the authorship problem of “The Tale of Genji” --; Revisiting Zipf’s law: A new indicator of lexical diversity --; A time-series analysis of vocabulary in Japanese texts: Non-characteristic words and topic words --; Authors’ addresses --; Name index --; Subject index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - Quantitative linguistic research reveals fascinating patterns in contemporary and historical linguistic data. The book offers insights from a broad range of languages, including Japanese, Slovene and Catalan. The reader is convinced that statistic empirical analysis – and increasingly also machine learning and big data – should be an essential part of any serious linguistic enquiry UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110763560 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110763560 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110763560/original ER -