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- Sigurd, Bengt, et al.
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Word length, sentence length and frequency : Zipf's law revisited
- 2004
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Ingår i: Studia Linguistica. - : Wiley. - 1467-9582 .- 0039-3193. ; 58:1, s. 37-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper examines data from English, Swedish and German in order to find a theoretical distribution that describes the observed relation between word length and frequency. In Swedish and English, most word tokens consist of three letters only, while shorter or longer words occur less frequently. We found that the equation with the general form fexp = a * Lb * cL (a variant of the so-called gamma distribution) approximates the observed frequencies reasonably well. This formula incorporates both the fact that the number of possible words increases with word length, and the fact that longer words tend to be avoided, presumably because they are uneconomic. To our knowledge this formula has not been proposed to describe word frequency data. We examined frequency distributions of word length in Swedish and English, and explored different variants of the equation by systematically varying the a, b and c parameters. Subsequently, we also applied the formula to the frequency distribution of sentence length in English, and found an almost perfect fit for a corpus consisting of different text genres. Moreover, the data showed that the formula can be used to distinguish between different kinds of text genres.
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- Tufvesson, Sylvia, et al.
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Idiom-entrenchment and semantic priming
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Ingår i: Linguagem Cultura e Cognição: Estudos de Linguística Cognitiva. - 9724023036 ; 1, s. 309-334
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- van de Weijer, Joost, et al.
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Consonant variation within words.
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference (University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language Technical Papers ; 16). - 1 86220 131 5 ; 16, s. 184-190
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- van de Weijer, Joost
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Vowels in infant- and adult-directed speech
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- F1 and F2 frequencies of the vowels /i/, /a/ and /u/ were measured in speech directed to an infant and to adults. The vowels were taken from content words as well as function words. The results showed that the vowel triangles in speech to the infant were expanded compared to those in speech to adults, but only in the content words. For function words, the opposite pattern was found: adults produced more expanded vowels in adult-directed speech than in infant-directed speech.
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