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Usage Effects on the Cognitive Routinization of Chinese Resultative Verbs [PDF]
, 2012 The present study adopts a corpus-oriented usage-based approach to the grammar of Chinese resultative verbs. Zooming in on a specific class of V-kai constructions, this paper aims to elucidate the effect of frequency in actual usage events on shaping the
Wang Ben Pin-Yun
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Principle of Least Effort and Sentence Length in Public Speaking
Entropy, 2021 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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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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Korpus OnomOs: principy a příklady aplikací [PDF]
Časopis pro Moderní FilologiiThe 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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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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The self-organization of genomes [PDF]
, 2010 Menzerath-Altmann law is a general law of human language stating, for instance, that the longer a word, the shorter its syllables. With the metaphor that genomes are words and chromosomes are syllables, we examine if genomes also obey the law.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon +1 more
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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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GP perspectives on hospital discharge letters : an interview and focus group study [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Written discharge communication following inpatient or outpatient clinic discharge is essential for communicating information to the GP, but GPs’ opinions on discharge communication are seldom sought.
Dale, Jeremy +4 more
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Metapragmatic Evaluation of Verbal Irony by Speakers of Russian and American English [PDF]
, 2012 The paper discusses metapragmatic assessment of verbal irony by speakers of Russian and American English. The research combines ideas from metapragmatics, folk linguistics and corpus linguistics. Empirical data are drawn from the Russian National Corpus (
Shilikhina, Ksenia
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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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