《拉丁语词汇与阅读:挑战与机遇》

IF 0.7 1区历史学 0 CLASSICS

Transactions of the American Philological Association Pub Date : 2023-11-30 DOI:10.1353/apa.2023.a913472

Tom Keeline, Tyler Kirby

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摘要

学者们一致认为，要理解一篇文章，你需要知道其中95-98%的单词。通过对400万字语料库的数字和统计分析，我们量化了在古典拉丁语中达到这个阈值的挑战。词汇分布有一条长尾:要流畅地阅读，你必须学习很多不常见的单词。由于现存古典拉丁语语料库的性质，这在今天几乎是不可能完成的任务。但是学习拉丁语的人不应该绝望。相反，我们应该调整我们的期望、我们的教学和我们的阅读练习。我们对可能的变化提出建议。

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Latin Vocabulary and Reading Latin: Challenges and Opportunities

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Scholars agree that you need to know 95‒98% of the words in a text in order to understand it. Using a digital and statistical analysis of a four-million-word corpus, we quantify the challenge of reaching this threshold in classical Latin. The vocabulary distribution has a long tail: to read with fluency you'd have to learn a lot of uncommon words. Because of the nature of the extant classical Latin corpus, this is an almost impossible task today. But Latin learners shouldn't despair. Instead, we should adjust our expectations, our teaching, and our reading practices. We make suggestions for possible changes.

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期刊介绍： Transactions of the APA (TAPA) is the official research publication of the American Philological Association. TAPA reflects the wide range and high quality of research currently undertaken by classicists. Highlights of every issue include: The Presidential Address from the previous year"s conference and Paragraphoi a reflection on the material and response to issues raised in the issue.