Word Length Effect in Free Recall of Randomly Assembled Word Lists [PDF]
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2014 In serial recall experiments, human subjects are requested to retrieve a list of words in the same order as they were presented. In a classical study, participants were reported to recall more words from study lists composed of short words compared to ...
Mikhail eKatkov +2 more
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How long is long? Word length effects in reading correspond to minimal graphemic units: An MEG study in Bangla. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThis paper presents a magnetoencephalography (MEG) study on reading in Bangla, an east Indo-Aryan language predominantly written in an abugida script.
Swarnendu Moitra +2 more
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Word Length in Political Public Speaking: Distribution and Time Evolution [PDF]
EntropyIn this paper, word length in the texts of public speeches by USA and UK politicians is analyzed. More than 300 speeches delivered over the past two hundred years were studied. It is found that the lognormal distribution better describes the distribution
Natalia L. Tsizhmovska +1 more
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Effects of word length, contextual support, and prior second language proficiency on the learning of technical words in a second language. [PDF]
PLoS ONESecond language (L2) learners often struggle with learning technical words in a new discipline. Previous studies suggested that word length and context may differentially affect orthographic and semantic acquisition during initial L2 word learning.
Jie Wang, Yen Na Yum
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Effects of word width and word length on optimal character size for reading of horizontally scrolling Japanese words [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 The present study investigated whether word width and length affect the optimal character size for reading of horizontally scrolling Japanese words, using reading speed as a measure.
Wataru eTeramoto +3 more
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The Menzerath–Altmann law: Experimenting with Tatar texts
Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2021 The Menzerath–Altmann law on the relationship between the length of linguistic units and the length of their components is one of the important laws of quantitative linguistics.
A.M. Galieva
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WORD LENGTH IN ESTONIAN PROSE; pp. 145–175 [PDF]
Trames, 2016 The present study deals with the problem of word length in Estonian prose. As is well known from quantitative and synergetic linguistics, word length is no isolated phenomenon; rather, it stands in close interrelations with word frequency, sentence and ...
Peter Grzybek
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Frontiers in Communication, 2021 Starting from a view on language as a complex, hierarchically organized system composed of many parts that have many interactions, this paper investigates statistical relationships between the linguistic variables “phoneme inventory size,” “syllable size,
Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon, Jürgen Pilz
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Quadratic Word Equations with Length Constraints, Counter Systems, and Presburger Arithmetic with Divisibility [PDF]
Logical Methods in Computer Science, 2021 Word equations are a crucial element in the theoretical foundation of constraint solving over strings. A word equation relates two words over string variables and constants.
Anthony W. Lin, Rupak Majumdar
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Revisiting the Optimality of Word Lengths
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2023 Zipf (1935) posited that wordforms are optimized to minimize utterances' communicative costs. Under the assumption that cost is given by an utterance's length, he supported this claim by showing that words' lengths are inversely correlated with their frequencies. Communicative cost, however, can be operationalized in different ways.
Pimentel, Tiago +4 more
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