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Quantitative Approaches to Universality and Individuality in Language / ed. by Makoto Yamazaki, Haruko Sanada, Reinhard Köhler, Sheila Embleton, Relja Vulanović, Eric S. Wheeler.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Quantitative Linguistics [QL] ; 75Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 229 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110628081
  • 9783110763638
  • 9783110763560
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P204 .Q36 2023.
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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