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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Beyond the Zipf-Mandelbrot law in quantitative linguistics [PDF]
, 2001 In this paper the Zipf-Mandelbrot law is revisited in the context of linguistics. Despite its widespread popularity the Zipf--Mandelbrot law can only describe the statistical behaviour of a rather restricted fraction of the total number of words ...
Cohen +11 more
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Letter counting: a stem cell for Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics [PDF]
, 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
Ycart, Bernard
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R as a Lingua Franca: Advantages of Using R for Quantitative Research in Applied Linguistics [PDF]
, 2016 In this article, we suggest that using R, a statistical software environment, is advantageous for quantitative researchers in applied linguistics. We first provide a brief overview of the reasons why R is popular among researchers in other fields and why
Luke PLONSKY +2 more
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Tracing contact and migration in pre-Bantu Southern Africa through lexical borrowing [PDF]
Evolutionary Human SciencesLexical borrowing may provide valuable clues about the sociohistorical context of language contact. Here we explore patterns of vocabulary transfer between languages from three families (Kx’a, Tuu, Khoe-Kwadi) comprising the linguistic unit commonly ...
Anne-Maria Fehn +6 more
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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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Exploring Word-Adjacency Networks with Multifractal Time Series Analysis Techniques [PDF]
EntropyA novel method of exploring linguistic networks is introduced by mapping word-adjacency networks to time series and applying multifractal analysis techniques.
Jakub Dec +5 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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