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Quantitative Linguistics.
Title:
Quantitative Linguistics.
Author:
Tešitelová, Marie.
ISBN:
9789027286680
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Series:
Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe
Contents:
QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS -- CONTENTS -- I. QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS -- 1. The scope of quantitative linguistics -- 2. The object of quantitative linguistics -- 3. A note about the foundations of quantitative linguistics -- II. METHODS OF RESEARCH -- 1. Unit of population -- 1.1. Unit of population in lexical statistics -- 1.2. Unit of population in grammatical statistics -- 1.2.1. Unit of population in morphological statistics -- 1.2.2. Unit of population in syntactic statistics -- 1.3. Unit of population in semantic statistics -- 1.4. Unit of population in other domains of quantitative linguistics -- 1.5. Conclusions -- 2. Problems of sampling the material -- 2.1. Sampling of material from the qualitative viewpoint -- 2.1.1. Linguistic criteria -- 2.1.2. Psychological criteria -- 2.1.3. Sociological criteria -- 2.1.4. Other criteria -- 2.1.5. Conclusions -- 2.2. Sampling of material from the quantitative viewpoint -- 2.2.1. Types of sampling -- 2.2.1.1. Systematic sampling -- 2.2.1.2. Random sampling -- 2.2.1.2.1. Random sampling of pages -- 2.2.1.2.1.1. Random sampling of pages in lexicon -- 2.2.1.2.1.2. Random sampling of pages in grammar -- 2.2.1.2.2. Random sampling of words -- 2.2.1.2.3. Conclusions -- 2.2.1.3. Cluster sampling -- 2.2.1.3.1. Cluster sampling methods -- 2.2.1.3.2. Cluster sampling in lexical statistics -- 2.2.1.3.3. Cluster sampling in grammatical statistics -- 2.2.1.3.3.1. Cluster sampling in morphological statistics -- 2.2.1.3.3.2. Cluster sampling in syntactic statistics -- 2.2.1.3.4. Cluster sampling in semantic statistics -- 2.2.1.3.5. Conclusions -- 3. Some statistical and other characteristics common in quantitative linguistics -- 3.1. Frequency, rank, order -- 3.1.1. The Zipf Laws -- 3.1.1.1. The First Zipf Law -- 3.1.1.2. The Second Zipf Law -- 3.1.1.3. The Third Zipf Law -- 3.1.1.4. Conclusions -- 3.2. Mean.

3.3. Variance and standard deviation -- 3.4. Frequency distribution -- 3.5. Coefficients -- 3.5.1. Coefficient of dispersion -- 3.6. Correlation, correlation coefficient -- 3.7. Concepts of information theory, entropy, redundancy -- 3.8. Conclusions -- III. THE MAIN AREAS OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS -- 1. Lexical statistics -- 1.1. The object of lexical statistics -- 1.2. Problems of methods of investigation -- 1.2.1. Unit of population and size of corpus -- 1.2.2. Word-frequency distribution -- 1.2.2.1. The zone of words of the higher and highest frequency -- 1.2.2.2. The zone of words of medium frequency -- 1.2.2.3. The zone of words of the lower and lowest frequency -- 1.2.2.4. Conclusions -- 1.2.3. The so-called richness of vocabulary -- 1.2.3.1. The formula of P. Guiraud -- 1.2.3.2. The formula of J. Mistrik -- 1.2.3.3. The formula of M. Těšitelová -- 1.2.3.4. Conclusions -- 1.3. Selected publications on lexical statistics -- 1.3.1. General characteristics -- 1.3.2. Publications on lexical statistics concerning Slavonic languages -- 1.3.2.1. Czech -- 1.3.2.2. Slovak -- 1.3.2.3. Russian and Ukrainian -- 1.3.2.4. Polish -- 1.3.2.5. Other Slavonic languages -- 1.3.3. Publications on lexical statistics concerning Germanic languages -- 1.3.3.1. German -- 1.3.3.2. English -- 1.3.3.3. Other Germanic languages -- 1.3.4. Publications on lexical statistics concerning Romanic languages -- 1.3.4.1. French -- 1.3.4.2. Spanish -- 1.3.4.3. Roumanian -- 1.3.4.4. Italian -- 1.3.5. Publications on lexical statistics concerning other languages -- 1.3.5.1. Latvian -- 1.3.5.2. Estonian -- 1.3.5.3. Hungarian -- 1.3.5.4. Finnish -- 1.3.5.5. Chinese -- 1.4. Conclusions -- 2. Grammatical statistics -- 2.1. The object of grammatical statistics -- 2.2. Methods of research -- 2.3. The components of grammatical statistics -- 2.3.1. Morphological statistics.

2.3.1.1. The object of morphological statistics -- 2.3.1.2. Methods of research -- 2.3.1.2.1. Unit of population in morphological statistics. -- 2.3.1.2.2. Sampling of the material in morphological statistics -- 2.3.1.2.3. Conclusions -- 2.3.1.3. Selected publications on morphological statistics -- 2.3.1.3.1. Czech -- 2.3.1.3.2. Slovak -- 2.3.1.3.3. Russian and other Slavonic languages -- 2.3.1.3.4. Other languages -- 2.3.1.4. Conclusions -- 2.3.2. Syntactic statistics -- 2.3.2.1. The object of syntactic statistics -- 2.3.2.2. Methods of research -- 2.3.2.2.1. The unit of population in syntactic statistics -- 2.3.2.2.2. Sampling of the material in syntactic statistics -- 2.3.2.3. Selected publications on syntactic statistics -- 2.3.2.3.1. Czech -- 2.3.2.3.2. Slovak -- 2.3.2.3.3. Russian and other Slavonic languages -- 2.3.2.3.4. Other languages -- 2.3.2.4. Conclusions -- 3. Semantic statistics -- 3.1. The object of semantic statistics -- 3.2. Methods of research -- 3.2.1. Unit of population in semantic statistics -- 3.2.2. Selection of methods and material in semantic statistics -- 3.3. Selected publications on semantic statistics -- 3.4. Conclusions -- IV. OTHER DOMAINS OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS -- 1. Phonological statistics -- 1.1. The object of phonological statistics -- 1.2. Methods of research -- 1.2.1. Unit of population in phonological statistics -- 1.2.2. Sampling of the material in phonological statistics -- 1.3. Selected publications on phonological statistics -- 1.3.1. Czech -- 1.3.2. Slovak -- 1.3.3. Russian and other Slavonic languages -- 1.3.4. Other languages -- 1.3.5. Conclusions -- 2. Graphemic statistics -- 2.1. The object of graphemic statistics -- 2.2. Methods of research -- 2.2.1. Unit of population in graphemic statistics -- 2.2.2. Sampling of the material in graphemic statistics.

2.3. Selected publications on graphemic statistics -- 2.3.1. Czech -- 2.3.2. Other languages -- 2.4. Conclusions -- 3. Stylistic statistics -- 3.1. The object of stylistic statistics -- 3.2. Methods of research -- 3.2.1. Unit of population in stylistic statistics -- 3.2.2. Sampling of the material in stylistic statistics -- 3.3. Selected publications on stylistic statistics -- 3.3.1.1. Czech -- 3.3.1.2. Slovak -- 3.3.1.3. Russian and other Slavonic languages -- 3.3.1.4. Other languages -- 3.4. Conclusions -- 4. Typological statistics -- 4.1. The object of typological statistics -- 4.2. Methods of research -- 4.2.1. Unit of population in typological statistics -- 4.2.2. Sampling of the material in typological statistics -- 4.3. Selected publications in typological statistics -- 4.4. Conclusions -- 5. Statistics concerning the development of language(s) -- 5.1. The object of quantification -- 5.2. Research methods -- 5.3. Selected publications on statistics concerning the development of language(s) -- 5.4. Conclusions -- 6. Word-formation statistics -- V. THE APPLICATION OF THE RESULTS OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS -- 1. Linguistic applications -- 2. Applications in education -- 2.1. Teaching the mother tongue -- 2.2. Foreign language teaching -- 3. Interdisciplinary applications -- 4. Technical applications -- 5. Conclusions -- VI. QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS AND COMPUTERS -- VII. PERSPECTIVES OF QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS OF THE ANALYZED TEXTS AND OTHER LANGUAGE MATERIALS -- LIST OF OTHER ABBREVIATIONS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX.
Abstract:
Since the 1960s quantitative linguistics has undergone a great development marked especially by attempts to work systematically with language phenomena on all language levels. Besides traditional areas where significant results were already achieved before the 60s (phonology, graphemics and lexicology), quantitative linguistics has now also penetrated into morphology, syntax, stylistics, history and typology of languages and, more recently, into semantics. This book gives a comprehensive account of the various developments and applications in quantitative linguistics.After an overview of methods used in quantitative linguistics, it discusses the main areas: lexical statistics, grammatical statistics and semantics statistics, with reference to a great number of studies of different languages and language families. Chapter 4 deals with other domains (phonology, graphemics, stylistics, typology, development of languages, word-formation), Chapter 6 deals with various applications, and Chapter 7 discusses the relationship between quantitative linguistics and the computer. The volume is completed by an extensive list of references and indices of names and of subjects.
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