Contributions to the Science of Text and Language : Word Length Studies and Related Issues

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ISBN 10: 1402040695 / ISBN 13: 9781402040696

Published by Springer Netherlands, 2007

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 368 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Contributions to the Science of Text and Language : Word Length Studies and Related Issues
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1402040695
• ISBN 13: 9781402040696
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Sehr gut

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Synopsis

Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language.

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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.