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Affix substitution in Indonesian: A computational modeling approach
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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Phylogenetic trees: Grammar versus vocabulary
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+2 more
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Love in Numbers: Sládkovič’s Marína from the viewpoint of quantitative linguistics [PDF]
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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Popular political attitudes in Samoa: Findings of the Pacific Attitudes Survey
Abstract Popular political attitudes surveys have been conducted globally for several decades, but the Pacific region remains an exception. This paper presents the findings of the first Pacific Attitudes Survey (PAS), conducted in Samoa from December 2020‐January 2021.
Michael Leach+9 more
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The Brevity Law as a Scaling Law, and a Possible Origin of Zipf’s Law for Word Frequencies
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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Does Scale-Free Syntactic Network Emerge in Second Language Learning?
Language is a complex system during whose operation many properties may emerge spontaneously. Using complex network approach, existing studies have found that, in first language (L1) acquisition, syntactic complex network featuring the scale-free and the
Jingyang Jiang+4 more
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The article introduces translative linguistics as a special branch in the study of natural languages and describes the history of its development.
N. D. Golev
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Parallels of human language in the behavior of bottlenose dolphins [PDF]
A short review of similarities between dolphins and humans with the help of quantitative linguistics and information theory.
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Principle of Least Effort and Sentence Length in Public Speaking
The analysis of sentence lengths in the inaugural speeches of US presidents and the annual speeches of UK party leaders is carried out. Transcripts of the speeches are used, rather than the oral production.
Natalia L. Tsizhmovska+1 more
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Korpus OnomOs: principy a příklady aplikací [PDF]
The study introduces OnomOs, a new corpus of Czech texts with annotation of proper names. The corpus was compiled by onomasticians from the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, and made available by the Institute of the ...
Michal Místecký +3 more
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