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Word Length Distribution and Text Length: Two Important Factors Influencing Properties of Word Length Motifs

  • National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • Comenius University

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Abstract

Word length motifs and their properties in Modern Greek blogs are investigated. We observe that the parameter of the type-token relation decreases with the increasing text length, and that the parameter values in real and randomized texts are not significantly different. Relations between the number of motifs in a text and the text length is modelled by the linear function for Modern Greek and Ukrainian texts, with the parameter of the model being in both languages inversely proportional to the mean word length.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationQuantitative Linguistics
EditorsHaitao Liu, Junying Liang
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH
Pages151-163
Number of pages13
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

Publication series

NameQuantitative Linguistics
Volume71
ISSN (Print)0179-3616

Keywords

  • text length
  • word length
  • word length motifs

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