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A Standardized Project Gutenberg Corpus for Statistical Analysis of Natural Language and Quantitative Linguistics [PDF]
Entropy, 2020 The use of Project Gutenberg (PG) as a text corpus has been extremely popular in statistical analysis of language for more than 25 years. However, in contrast to other major linguistic datasets of similar importance, no consensual full version of PG ...
Martin Gerlach, Francesc Font-Clos
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Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics [PDF]
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Historical linguistics is the study of language change and stability, of the history of individual languages, and of the relatedness between languages. In spite of numerous acknowledgements, the adoption of quantitative methods in historical linguistics ...
Barbara McGillivray, Gard B. Jenset
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Letter counting: a stem cell for Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics [PDF]
Historiographia Linguistica 40, 3 (2013) 303-329, 2012 Counting letters in written texts is a very ancient practice. It has accompanied the development of Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics. In Cryptology, counting frequencies of the different characters in an encrypted message is the basis of the so called frequency analysis method.
Bernard Ycart
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Quranic Studies Made in Austria: Approaching Quantitative Arabic Linguistics
مجلة كلية الشريعة والدراسات الإسلامية, 2020 Purpose: The aim of this article is to outline the interest in the Arabic language in Europe and the beginnings of teaching Arabic and establishing Arabic studies in Europe before introducing Quranic studies in Austria as such.
Orhan Elmaz
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Quantitative methods for Phylogenetic Inference in Historical Linguistics: An experimental case study of South Central Dravidian [PDF]
Indian Linguistics, Volume 70, 2009, 2014 In this paper we examine the usefulness of two classes of algorithms Distance Methods, Discrete Character Methods (Felsenstein and Felsenstein 2003) widely used in genetics, for predicting the family relationships among a set of related languages and therefore, diachronic language change.
Taraka Rama +2 more
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Parlez-vous #hashtag ? Quelques éclairages sur l’anglicisme hashtag et ses substituts français mot-dièse et mot-clic [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 Cet article porte sur hashtag, un anglicisme, et ses substituts français mot-dièse et mot-clic à partir de l’observation d’un corpus d’occurrences. L’analyse quantitative montre que le mot hashtag s’emploie le plus fréquemment en France, alors qu’au ...
Schuring Melissa, Vanderheyden Anne
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Reassembling the Pimped Ride: A Quantitative Look at the Integration of a Borrowed Expression
Frontiers in Communication, 2022 Over the past decades, research on the linguistic impact of globalization has foregrounded the socio-pragmatic meaning potential and mental categorization of anglicisms, looking for signs of agentivity and contextual sensitivity in the way receptor ...
Stefano De Pascale +3 more
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Have media texts become more humorous?
The European Journal of Humour Research, 2023 As a research topic, humour has drawn much attention from multiple disciplines including linguistics. Based on Engelthaler & Hills’ (2018) humour scale, this study developed a measure named Humour Index (HMI) to quantify the degree of humour of texts ...
Haoran Zhu, Yueqing Deng
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Linguistics, 2022 Researchers studying language variation and change induced by contact with English initially focused on the linguistic integration of English source language (SL) material in the morphophonological structure of the receptor language (RL).
Crombez Yasmin +3 more
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Linguistic laws in biology [PDF]
Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37(1), 53-66 (2022), 2023 Linguistic laws, the common statistical patterns of human language, have been investigated by quantitative linguists for nearly a century. Recently, biologists from a range of disciplines have started to explore the prevalence of these laws beyond language, finding patterns consistent with linguistic laws across multiple levels of biological ...
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