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Using Rank-Frequency and Type-Token Statistics to Compare Morphological Typology in the Celtic Languages 使用秩频和类型标记统计比较凯尔特语的形态类型学

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-04-02 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2018.1560122

Andrew Wilson, Rosie Harvey

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引用次数: 2

A Multifactorial Analysis of Concessive Clause Positioning 让步条款定位的多因素分析

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-11 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2020.1737488

Huimyung Kang, Jiajin Xu

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引用次数: 1

Analysis of Transitional Areas in Dialectology: Approach with Fuzzy Logic 方言过渡区分析:模糊逻辑的方法

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-03 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2020.1732765

Gotzon Aurrekoetxea, Aitor Iglesias, E. Clua, I. Usobiaga, M. Salicrú

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引用次数: 0

A Methodology to Measure the Diachronic Language Distance between Three Languages Based on Perplexity 基于困惑度的三种语言间长期语言距离测量方法

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-03-01 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2020.1732177

José Ramom Pichel, Pablo Gamallo, I. Alegria, Marco Neves

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引用次数: 4

Prose, Verse and Authorship in Dream of the Red Chamber: A Stylometric Analysis 《红楼梦》中的文、诗与作者:文体分析

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-02-09 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2020.1724677

Haoran Zhu, L. Lei, Hugh Craig

引用次数: 7

Syntactic Impairments of Chinese Alzheimer’s Disease Patients from a Language Dependency Network Perspective 语言依赖网络视角下中国阿尔茨海默病患者的句法障碍

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-07 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2019.1703485

Jianpeng Liu, Junhai Zhao, Xiaohui Bai

{"title":"Syntactic Impairments of Chinese Alzheimer’s Disease Patients from a Language Dependency Network Perspective","authors":"Jianpeng Liu, Junhai Zhao, Xiaohui Bai","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2019.1703485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2019.1703485","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study examined the syntactic impairments of Chinese Alzheimer’s disease patients with a dependency network approach. The dependency treebanks and dependency networks are constructed from the discourses of both the patient group and its healthy peers. By analysing the contrasts in the dependency networks of the two groups, we found that 1) the mean dependency distance (MDD) of the AD group is shorter than that of the HP group; furthermore, the MDDs of both AD and HP groups are far below the standard Chinese MDD; 2) the content words like remember, forget, know, etc. and the negative forms of the verbs like don’t know, can’t remember, can’t say, etc. show highly repetitive uncertain and negative expressions that are typical of the predicates of the clauses of AD patients; 3) the function word vertices in the AD dependency network have distinctive network parameters such as higher ‘betweenness’ centrality, closeness centrality, and clustering coefficients, etc., indicating that the syntax of AD is impaired and features more simplified stereotypes. These results indicate that the syntax of the AD group has been impaired from parts of speech to the whole syntactic structure.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2020-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09296174.2019.1703485","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43008185","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}

引用次数: 3

Normalized Dependency Distance: Proposing a New Measure 归一化依赖距离：一种新的度量方法

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2018.1504615

L. Lei, Matthew L. Jockers

引用次数: 11

Functional Role of Frequency in Word-Formation Processes: A System Theoretical Approach 频率在造词过程中的作用：一种系统理论方法

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2018.1496990

Inna Uglanova

引用次数: 0

Numerical Assessment of Orthographic Neighbourhood Size Fluctuation in Writing Using Fractal Dimension Analysis 应用分形分析对书写中正交邻域大小波动的数值评估

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-11-25 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2019.1694360

R. Taibu, E. Cheung, Weier Ye, S. Dehipawala, V. Shekoyan, G. Tremberger, T. Cheung

{"title":"Numerical Assessment of Orthographic Neighbourhood Size Fluctuation in Writing Using Fractal Dimension Analysis","authors":"R. Taibu, E. Cheung, Weier Ye, S. Dehipawala, V. Shekoyan, G. Tremberger, T. Cheung","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2019.1694360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2019.1694360","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The orthographic size of a targeted word, the number of new words that can be generated from a targeted word by exchanging a single letter, offers a research window where words can be transformed into numerical values. The CLEARPOND technology from Northwestern University was used for the transformation. A writing can then be modelled as a time series where the fluctuation can be further described using fractal dimension analysis. This project used the Higuchi fractal method for the computation of the fractal dimensions of time series. The proof of concept was conducted using writing examples which include Astronomy writing and English writing, the responses of Trump and Clinton in a Presidential election debate, and song lyrics. The results suggested that a high fractal dimension has an association with a high-demand cognitive task. The use of fractal dimension analysis as a writing assessment tool is discussed with relationship to the current lexical diversity computation technology.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09296174.2019.1694360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49612311","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}

引用次数: 1

Word Length Distribution in Zhuang Language 壮语的词长分布

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Journal of Quantitative Linguistics Pub Date : 2019-10-30 DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2019.1678225

Aiyun Wei, Qian Lu, Haitao Liu

{"title":"Word Length Distribution in Zhuang Language","authors":"Aiyun Wei, Qian Lu, Haitao Liu","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2019.1678225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2019.1678225","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The present study focuses on the word length distribution (WLD) of Zhuang language. The results show that the WLDs of all texts investigated can be described by the Positive Cohen-Poisson model when the word length is measured by the syllable numbers. However, when the word length is measured by the letter numbers, they do not follow any model from the Poisson or Binomial distribution families widely observed in other languages. However, the WLDs of all the Zhuang texts investigated follow the Zipf-Alekseev function either in terms of syllable or letter numbers. Moreover, the research on the WLDs of different Zhuang genres indicates that WLD may not be a sensitive index in distinguishing different Zhuang genres but an effective one in distinguishing different Zhuang styles (spoken or written). Then, the study of the relationship between the parameters a and b in the Zipf-Alekseev function shows that the self-organizing regularity observed in other languages also exists in Zhuang. Finally, the study of the word length-frequency relationship of Zhuang indicates that Zhuang word length is influenced by its frequency, which can be explained by Zipf’s ‘Principle of Least Effort’ and thus follow the law of lexical synergetic subsystem in synergetic linguistics.","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2019-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/09296174.2019.1678225","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43491576","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}

引用次数: 4