Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

by Arjuna Tuzzi (Editor), Martina Benesová (Editor), Ján Macutek (Editor)

Overview

Founding Editor: Gabriel Altmann

The series Quantitative Linguistics publishes books on all aspects of quantitative methods and models in linguistics, text analysis and related research fields. Specifically, the scope of the series covers the whole spectrum of theoretical and empirical research, ultimately striving for an exact mathematical formulation and empirical testing of hypotheses: observation and description of linguistic data, application of methods and models, discussion of methodological and epistemological issues, modelling of language and text phenomena.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110420357
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/16/2015
Series:	Quantitative Linguistics [QL] , #70
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	292
File size:	11 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

A. Tuzzi, University of Padua, Italy; M. Benešová, Palacký University, Czech Republic; J. Mačutek, Comenius University, Slovakia.

Table of Contents

Editors' Foreword v

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics Sven Naumann 89

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

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

Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals Andrij Rovenchak 125

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

Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches Jacques Savoy 153

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

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

Tracing the History of Words Arjuna Tuzzi Reinhard Köhler 203

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

Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters Yanru Wang Xinying Chen 229

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

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

References 267

Index of Names 269

Subject Index 273

Authors' Addresses 281