Ebook: Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Word Length Studies and Related Issues

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.

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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.

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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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introductory Remarks: On the Science of Language in Light of the Language of Science....Pages 1-14
History and Methodology of Word Length Studies....Pages 15-90
Information Content of Words in Texts....Pages 91-115
Zero-Syllablewords in Determiningword Length....Pages 117-156
Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Contentwords and function words....Pages 157-170
On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, Andword Frequencies in Slovenian....Pages 171-185
Text Corpus as an Abstract Data Structure....Pages 187-197
About Word Length Distribution....Pages 199-210
The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath’s Law....Pages 211-213
Towards the Foundations of Menzerath’s Law....Pages 215-240
Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages....Pages 241-258
Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text Analyses....Pages 259-275
Word Length and Word Frequency....Pages 277-294
Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond....Pages 295-300
About Word Length Counting in Serbian....Pages 301-317
Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower Sorbian Newspaper Texts....Pages 319-327
Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws....Pages 329-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-352

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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.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introductory Remarks: On the Science of Language in Light of the Language of Science....Pages 1-14
History and Methodology of Word Length Studies....Pages 15-90
Information Content of Words in Texts....Pages 91-115
Zero-Syllablewords in Determiningword Length....Pages 117-156
Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Contentwords and function words....Pages 157-170
On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, Andword Frequencies in Slovenian....Pages 171-185
Text Corpus as an Abstract Data Structure....Pages 187-197
About Word Length Distribution....Pages 199-210
The Fall of the Jers in the Light of Menzerath’s Law....Pages 211-213
Towards the Foundations of Menzerath’s Law....Pages 215-240
Aspects of the Typology of Slavic Languages....Pages 241-258
Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text Analyses....Pages 259-275
Word Length and Word Frequency....Pages 277-294
Developing the Croatian National Corpus and Beyond....Pages 295-300
About Word Length Counting in Serbian....Pages 301-317
Word-Length Distribution in Present-Day Lower Sorbian Newspaper Texts....Pages 319-327
Towards a Unified Derivation of Some Linguistic Laws....Pages 329-337
Back Matter....Pages 339-352
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