Thoughts about disordered thinking: measuring and quantifying the laws of order and disorder [PDF]
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Cohen, Alex +6 more
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A cross-disciplinary and multi-method approach of multilingualism in psychotherapy [PDF]
In this chapter Jean-Marc and Beverley will share their experiences of working with mixed methods in an under-researched area. As we shall see, her interest in larger sampling groups introduced her to some of the advantages of quantitative research ...
Costa, B., Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points
This paper considers four problems that are most likely to affect the future development of linguistics: 1) linguistic diversity; 2) the text/system interpretation of language; 3) the role of quantitative methods; 4) the role of diachronic analysis.
Plungyan V. A.
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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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Holistic corpus-based dialectology [PDF]
This paper is concerned with sketching future directions for corpus-based dialectology. We advocate a holistic approach to the study of geographically conditioned linguistic variability, and we present a suitable methodology, 'corpusbased dialectometry',
Szmrecsanyi, Benedikt, Wolk, Christoph
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Zipf’s law: Divergence from general content in online communities of peers affected by attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anorexia nervosa [PDF]
Introduction: Psycholinguistics studies the relationship between linguistic behavior and psychological factors. For what concerns ADHD (Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) and anorexia nervosa, psycholinguistics can offer insights into the language-
Livio Tarchi +2 more
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The law of brevity in macaque vocal communication is not an artifact of analyzing mean call durations [PDF]
Words follow the law of brevity, i.e. more frequent words tend to be shorter. From a statistical point of view, this qualitative definition of the law states that word length and word frequency are negatively correlated.
Agoramoorthy, Govindasamy +3 more
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Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English
This paper presents a cross-language study of lexical semantics within the framework of distributional semantics. We used a wide range of predefined semantic categories in Mandarin and English and compared the clusterings of these categories using ...
Yi Yang, R. Harald Baayen
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Marking the beginning and end of the Tatar word: The system of vowels
In natural languages, segmentation of the speech flow is the most important aspect of speech decoding: the meaning of a linguistic whole can be understood only if it is broken down into smaller elements and these are combined according to the grammatical
A.M. Galieva, Zh.E. Vavilova
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Beyond the Zipf-Mandelbrot law in quantitative linguistics
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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