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Punctuation and text segmentation in 15th-century pamphlets 15世纪小册子中的标点符号和文本分割

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2035

M. Neumann

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Quantifying graphemic variation via large text corpora 通过大型文本语料库量化文字差异

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2038

Hanna Lüschow

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Spelling variation and text alignment 拼写变体和文本对齐

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2032

Anja Voeste

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Lost in Translation – Typographic variation in loanword surrounded punctuation positions 翻译中丢失——外来词周围标点位置的排版变化

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2034

Paul Rössler

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Enregistered spellings in interaction 在交互中注册拼写

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2033

Florian Busch

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Towards a broad-coverage graphemic analysis of large historical corpora 大型历史语料库的广泛覆盖图形分析

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2037

Sandra Waldenberger, Stefanie Dipper, Ilka Lemke

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Special issue on The evolution of writing systems 写作系统演变特刊

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-11-01 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2049

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Frontmatter Frontmatter

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-10-22 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-frontmatter2

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Revisiting German two-way prepositions 重读德语双向介词

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-09-09 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2029

D. Jach

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Das Präteritum im Alemannischen Südwestdeutschlands 德国西南部阿勒曼地区的史前时期

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Zeitschrift Fur Sprachwissenschaft Pub Date : 2021-07-08 DOI: 10.1515/zfs-2021-2028

Jens Leonhard

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