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Authorship Attribution via Occupancy-problem-type Indices 基于占用问题型指标的作者归属

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-02-14 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2022.2037276

Lukun Zheng, Huiqiang Zheng, Chandra Kundu

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To Move or Not to Move: An Entropy-based Approach to the Informativeness of Research Article Abstracts across Disciplines 移动还是不移动:基于熵的跨学科研究论文摘要信息性方法

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-02-10 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2022.2037275

Wei Xiao, Li Li, Jin Liu

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Menzerath-Altmann Law in Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting: Insights into Varied Cognitive Processes and Load 交替传译和同声传译中的Menzerath-Altmann定律:对不同认知过程和负荷的洞察

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-16 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2022.2027657

Xinlei Jiang, Yue Jiang

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Markov Models for Multi-state Language Change 多状态语言变化的马尔可夫模型

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2021.1877004

F. Velde, Isabeau De Smet

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Syntactic Complexity of Different Text Types: From the Perspective of Dependency Distance Both Linearly and Hierarchically 不同文本类型的句法复杂性：从线性和层次依赖距离看

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-09 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2021.2005960

Ruina Chen, Sirui Deng, Haitao Liu

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Dependency Distance and Its Probability Distribution: Are They the Universals for Measuring Second Language Learners’ Language Proficiency? 依赖距离及其概率分布：它们是衡量第二语言学习者语言能力的普遍性吗？

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-11-17 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2021.1991684

Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Yanni Lin

{"title":"Dependency Distance and Its Probability Distribution: Are They the Universals for Measuring Second Language Learners’ Language Proficiency?","authors":"Yuxin Hao, Xuelin Wang, Yanni Lin","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2021.1991684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2021.1991684","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous studies have shown that dependency distance and its probability distribution can be applied as syntactic indicators of English as interlanguage. However, the universal application of these indicators has not been verified from the perspective of language typology. The issues are addressed in the present study based on a treebank of Chinese interlanguage of English and Japanese native speakers. The findings are as follows: (1) with the improvement of L2 proficiency, the MDDs of learners with different native language backgrounds gradually approach that of the target language in different patterns, and dependency distance is of universal significance as a metric to measure the development of interlanguage’s syntactic complexity; (2) Chinese interlanguage also follows the principle of least effort, and its probability distribution of dependency distance, like those of natural languages, presents a power–law distribution, which can successfully fit the Zipf-Alekseev distribution; (3) the right truncated modified Zipf-Alekseev distribution can be used to measure Chinese interlanguage proficiency, and the fitting parameters of the probability distribution of dependency distance as a metric of interlanguage proficiency are also of universal value.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"485 - 509"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47417978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A Zipfian Approach to Words in Contexts: The Cases of Modern English and Chinese Zipfian语境中的词语研究——以现代英汉为例

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-05-19 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2021.1926110

Jinzhou Cong

{"title":"A Zipfian Approach to Words in Contexts: The Cases of Modern English and Chinese","authors":"Jinzhou Cong","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2021.1926110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2021.1926110","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The system-level complexity of language has been thoroughly investigated in terms of Zipf’s law, whose quantitative features have proved to reflect text/language typology. This study extends the scope of Zipf’s law from the macroscopic scale of language to specific words in contexts, with the aim of examining its potential as an indicator of word typology. The focus is confined to the high-frequency words in English and Chinese as found in the FLOB and LCMC corpora. It has been found that the log–log rank-frequency distributions of contextual words of the words in question generally abide by the linear function y = ax+b. Moreover, it has been shown that an adjusted version of parameter a can help to distinguish the words in question’s classes. The contextual information as reflected by this Zipf-based index might be more important to the emergence of word classes of Chinese, which has no real inflection as a word-class indicator. From a Zipfian approach, the findings have preliminarily approved Saussure’s systems thinking regarding linguistic signs. Meanwhile, they may also contribute to such fields as usage-based linguistics.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"465 - 484"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09296174.2021.1926110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47942307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Indicative/subjunctive Mood Alternation with Adverbs of Doubt in Spanish 西班牙语中指示/虚拟语气与疑问副词的转换

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-27 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2021.1919376

Harunobu Hirota

{"title":"The Indicative/subjunctive Mood Alternation with Adverbs of Doubt in Spanish","authors":"Harunobu Hirota","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2021.1919376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2021.1919376","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to analyse the indicative/subjunctive mood alternation in Spanish sentences with adverbs of doubt (acaso, posiblemente, probablemente, quizá, quizás, tal vez, seguramente, a lo mejor, igual). To this end, this study statistically analysed the linguistic and social factors conditioning the mood alternation in sentences with adverbs of doubt. A total of 1278 tokens were analysed. Each datum was annotated with verb type, verb aspect, verb person, distance between the adverb and the verb, sex, age, region, and education level. To exclude confounding factors, multivariable logistic regression was conducted, and the analysis yielded significant odds ratios (ORs) for 10 items, including sex, region, education level, adverbs (posiblemente, probablemente, quizá, quizás, tal vez), aspect, and distance between the verb and the adverb. These results show that these adverbs can be divided into two groups, where posiblemente, probablemente, quizá, quizás, and tal vez are more likely to co-occur with the subjunctive than the adverbs acaso, seguramente, a lo mejor, and igual. Furthermore, this study has shown that each adverb differs in the likelihood of co-occurring with the subjunctive, and that social factors of speakers affect the mood selection. Thus, an analysis of mood alternations should include social and linguistic factors.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":"29 1","pages":"450 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09296174.2021.1919376","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46192868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Entropy of Morphological Systems in Natural Languages Is Modulated by Functional and Semantic Properties 自然语言中形态系统的熵受功能和语义属性的调节

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-26 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2022.2063501

Francesca Franzon, Chiara Zanini

{"title":"The Entropy of Morphological Systems in Natural Languages Is Modulated by Functional and Semantic Properties","authors":"Francesca Franzon, Chiara Zanini","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2022.2063501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2022.2063501","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In most natural languages, grammatical gender and number features encode semantic attributes concerning animacy, sex, and numerosity. Despite the likely advantage of promptly communicating about such salient attributes, inflectional systems rarely display consistently bijective correspondences between the semantic attributes and the grammatical feature values. In a study on Italian, we explored how this apparently noisy encoding depends on a trade-off between the semantic and the functional aspects of grammatical features. Using entropy metrics, we assessed the primarily functional purpose of gender and number features in the lexicon, observing a distribution of nouns that can optimally serve agreement-based parsing and prediction of words in sentences. A novel context entropy measure, introduced in this study to assess meaning specificity, revealed a semantic underspecification in masculine and singular nouns denoting animate referents. We argue that underspecification is the hallmark of the particular type of information compression occurring in inflectional systems. In binary inflectional systems, one value specifically encodes a semantic attribute, while the other value does not encode any semantic information, and surfaces as a default for functional purposes. By providing an information-theoretical account of the role of grammatical features, we set the basis for a scientifically informed pursue of language inclusiveness.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"42 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43283129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Modelling the Dynamics of Language Change: Logistic Regression, Piotrowski’s Law, and a Handful of Examples in Polish 语言变化的动力学建模：Logistic回归、Piotrowski定律和波兰语中的一大堆例子

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-04-13 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2022.2151208

Rafal L. Górski, Maciej Eder

{"title":"Modelling the Dynamics of Language Change: Logistic Regression, Piotrowski’s Law, and a Handful of Examples in Polish","authors":"Rafal L. Górski, Maciej Eder","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2022.2151208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2022.2151208","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The study discusses modelling diachronic processes by logistic regression. The phenomenon of nonlinear changes in language was first observed by Raimund Piotrowski (hence labelled as Piotrowski’s law), even if actual linguistic evidence often speaks against using the notion of a ‘law’ in this context. In our study, we apply logistic regression models to changes which occurred between 15th and 18th century in the Polish language. The attested course of the majority of these changes closely follow the expected values, which proves that the language change might indeed resemble a nonlinear phase change scenario. We also extend the original Piotrowski’s approach by proposing polynomial logistic regression for these cases which can hardly be described by its standard version. Also, we propose to consider individual language change cases jointly, in order to inspect their possible collinearity or, more likely, their different dynamics in the function of time. Last but not least, we evaluate our results by testing the influence of the subcorpus size on the model’s goodness-of-fit.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":"30 1","pages":"125 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43674217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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