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Stylometry and Numerals Usage: Benford’s Law and Beyond
Stats, 2021 We suggest two approaches to the statistical analysis of texts, both based on the study of numerals occurrence in literary texts. The first approach is related to Benford’s Law and the analysis of the frequency distribution of various leading digits of ...
Andrei V. Zenkov
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Research Methodology and Orientation of Papers Published from 1980 to 2019 in Applied Linguistics Journals [PDF]
Issues in Language Teaching, 2020 This study explored the research methodology and research orientation of the papers published in seven world-leading applied linguistics journals from 1980 to 2019.
Hussein Meihami
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Marking the beginning and end of the Tatar word: The system of vowels
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2022 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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Zipf’s law: Divergence from general content in online communities of peers affected by attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and anorexia nervosa [PDF]
Advances in Medicine, Psychology, and Public HealthIntroduction: 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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Comparing the semantic structures of lexicon of Mandarin and English
Language and CognitionThis 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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Linguistics in the 21st Century: Problems, Prospects, and Growth Points
Слово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2018 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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A statistical approach to term extraction
International Journal of English Studies (IJES), 2011 This paper argues in favor of a statistical approach to terminology extraction, general to all languages but with language specific parameters. In contrast to many application-oriented terminology studies, which are focused on a particular language and ...
Rogelio Nazar
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Frequency effects in linear discriminative learning
Frontiers in Human NeuroscienceWord frequency is a strong predictor in most lexical processing tasks. Thus, any model of word recognition needs to account for how word frequency effects arise. The Discriminative Lexicon Model (DLM) models lexical processing with mappings between words'
Maria Heitmeier +5 more
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Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022 Having two previously published editions (2009 and 2013), the current edition (2021), Statistics for Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction, revises and brings into discussion an updated part of the quantitative analysis methods adapted to ...
Nicoleta MANLUP
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A Law of Word Meaning in Dolphin Whistle Types
Entropy, 2009 We show that dolphin whistle types tend to be used in specific behavioral contexts, which is consistent with the hypothesis that dolphin whistle have some sort of “meaning”.
Brenda McCowan, Ramon Ferrer-i-Cancho
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