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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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The sociopragmatic parameters steering the reported selection of Anglicisms or their Dutch alternatives

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, Ghyselen Anne-Sophie, Winter-Froemel Esme, Zenner Eline   +3 more
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Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2022
Traditionally, genealogical relationships between languages are established on the basis of phonetic and lexical data. The question whether genealogical relationships among languages can be defined based on grammatical data remains unanswered.
Vladimir N. Polyakov, Elena A. Makarova, Valery D. Solovyev   +2 more
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Affix substitution in Indonesian: A computational modeling approach

Linguistics, 2023
Indonesian has two noun-forming prefixes, PE- and PEN-, that often stand in a paradigmatic relation to verbal base words with the prefixes BER- and MEN-.
Denistia Karlina, Baayen R. Harald
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Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics [PDF]

Slovenska Literatura, 2022
This review essay discusses the monograph Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics authored by Michal Místecký, Natália Kolenčíková, Martin Navrátil and Gabriel Altmann (Bratislava: Veda, 2020).
Miroslav Zumrík
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Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics

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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Probability distribution in a quantitative linguistic problem [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Physics, 2009
In the present contribution, we propose a possible way to discuss the distributions of words in a given text. We have devoted our study to discuss some relevant properties observed in Spanish texts of Latin-American writers. We start analyzing the appearance of distributions of the frequency of occurrence in the Zipf perspective.
Calderón, F., Curilef, S., Ladrón de Guevara, M. L.   +2 more
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Ideology in the linguistic landscape: Towards a quantitative approach [PDF]

Discourse & Society, 2021
Past approaches to ideological commemorative street naming have taken for granted the concept of ideology, focusing on the policy decisions and the debates surrounding individual and more concerted resemioticisations. In this paper, we demonstrate that the concept of ideology in the context of commemorative street renaming is by no means unequivocal ...
Frauke Griese, Malgorzata Fabiszak, Seraphim Alvanides, Seraphim Alvanides, Anna Weronika Brzezińska, Isabelle Buchstaller, Carolin Schneider   +6 more
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The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies

Entropy, 2020
An important body of quantitative linguistics is constituted by a series of statistical laws about language usage. Despite the importance of these linguistic laws, some of them are poorly formulated, and, more importantly, there is no unified framework ...
Álvaro Corral, Isabel Serra
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Seeking systematicity in variation : theoretical and methodological considerations on the “variety” concept [PDF]

, 2018
One centennial discussion in linguistics concerns whether languages, or linguistic systems, are, essentially, homogeneous or rather show “structured heterogeneity.” In this contribution, the question is addressed whether and how sociolinguistically ...
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