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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Grzybek, Peter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 31
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Mathematical logic.; Computational linguistics.; Grammar.; Computational Linguistics.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Theoretical Linguistics.

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 ext...

Table of Contents:

• 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-Syllablewords in Determiningword Length
• Within-Sentence Distribution and Retention of Contentwords and function words
• On Text Corpora, Word Lengths, Andword 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
• Multivariate Statistical Methods in Quantitative Text Analyses
• Word 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.