Relating Word Length to Morphemic Structure: A Morphologically Motivated Class of Discrete Probability Distributions
- In this article an alternative way of accounting for the distribution of word length – as measured in terms of number of syllables per word – in texts of certain natural languages will be explored.
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| Author: | Peter MeyerORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-38216 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1076/jqul.6.1.66.4143 |
| ISSN: | 0929-6174 |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Quantitative Linguistics |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 1999 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/06/30 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Language statistics; Word length |
| GND Keyword: | Sprachstatistik; Wortlänge |
| Volume: | 6 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| First Page: | 66 |
| Last Page: | 69 |
| Note: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in "Journal of Quantitative Linguistics" in 1999, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1076/jqul.6.1.66.4143 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 410 Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |