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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Quantitative Standards for Absolute Linguistic Universals [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2013 AbstractAbsolute linguistic universals are often justified by cross‐linguistic analysis: If all observed languages exhibit a property, the property is taken to be a likely universal, perhaps specified in the cognitive or linguistic systems of language learners and users. In many cases, these patterns are then taken to motivate linguistic theory.
Steven T, Piantadosi, Edward, Gibson
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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 ...
Agha +112 more
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Ergativity and depth of analysis [PDF]
, 2019 In this paper, I argue that “depth of analysis” does not deserve the prestige that it is sometimes given in general linguistics. While language description should certainly be as detailed as possible, general linguistics must rely on worldwide comparison
Haspelmath, M.
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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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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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Does Scale-Free Syntactic Network Emerge in Second Language Learning?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 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 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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Dataglove Measurement of Joint Angles in Sign Language Handshapes [PDF]
, 2012 In sign language research, we understand little about articulatory factors involved in shaping phonemic boundaries or the amount (and articulatory nature) of acceptable phonetic variation between handshapes.
Bour, Rebecca +2 more
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Computational Sociolinguistics: A Survey [PDF]
, 2016 Language is a social phenomenon and variation is inherent to its social nature. Recently, there has been a surge of interest within the computational linguistics (CL) community in the social dimension of language.
de Jong, Franciska +3 more
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