Quantitative Linguistics and Political History
In France, quantitative linguistics has found fertile terrain in political History: unexpectedly at first, then privileged to the point of developing into a tradition or even an autonomous sub-discipline.
Damon Mayaffre
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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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LingPy. A Python Library for Quantitative Tasks in Historical Linguistics. Version 2.6.1
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Physics Beyond Physics: Application of Physical Approaches in Quantitative Linguistics
The application of physical methods to solve non-physical problems has been considered. In particular, the prospects of physical approaches in quantitative linguistics are analyzed.
A. Vasilev, I. Vasileva, T. Shevchenko
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LingPy. A Python Library for Quantitative Tasks in Historical Linguistics. Version 2.6.3
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Quantitative Standards for Absolute Linguistic Universals [PDF]
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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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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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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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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