Overview
- Presents a collection of papers on the quantitative study of language, in particular word length studies
Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 31)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor's preface. The book's first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies.
The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies.
The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Contributions to the Science of Text and Language
Book Subtitle: Word Length Studies and Related Issues
Editors: Peter Grzybek
Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4068-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4067-2Published: 28 November 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4069-6Published: 18 October 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4068-9Published: 17 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1386-291X
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9388
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 352
Topics: Grammar, Computational Linguistics, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Theoretical Linguistics