Contents of 

Glottometrics 19, 2009 (including abstracts)

 

Best, Karl-Heinz
Wortlängen im Englischen 1-10
Abstract. The aim of this paper is to show that word lengths in English texts follow certain dis­tribution laws. The findings lend support to the theory of word length distributions (Wimmer et al. 1994, Wimmer & Altmann 1996) once more.
Lewizkij, Victor;  Matskulyak, Yulia

Semantische Kombinierbarkeit von Komponenten in der Struktur der deutschen Komposita

11-41
Abstract. The semantics of nouns, adjectives and verbs as components of compound words was studied; also the peculiarities of their combination in the models N+N, A+N, V+N were analyzed. The main characteristics of the combinatory were established as combinatory range, strength (intensity) of a tie, and the number of significant ties.
Tuzzi, Arjuna; Popescu, Ioan-Iovitz; Altmann, Gabriel
Parts-of-speech diversification in Italian texts 42-48
Abstract. In the present article some characteristics of the rank-frequency distribution of parts-of-speech in the End-of-year speeches of Italian presidents are scrutinized. The result is com­pared with some other languages.
Eeg-Olofsson, Mats
A word length regularity and its genesis 49-69
Abstract. Data from several typologically and genetically distinct languages show that the distribution of length in letters or phonemes of word types fits the Good distribution, the discrete analogue of the Gamma distribution. It is suggested that this is an equilibrium distribution, resulting from long oral tradition of language between successive generations. Length redistribution can take place when juxt­aposed words in speech are re-interpreted by second generation listeners. Simulations show that a certain kind of random shifting of word boundaries results in a lexicon whose word lengths are also well fitted by the Good distribution. The fit remains close even if a limited amount of compounding is introduced into the simulations.
Sanada, Haruko; Altmann, Gabriel
Diversification of postpositions in Japanese      70-79
Abstract. In this study we show the place of the diversification of Japanese postpositions in the hierarchy of different language phenomena. The Popescu indicator is computed from three different texts.
Best, Karl-Heinz

Zur Entwicklung der Entlehnungen aus dem Japanischen ins Deutsche

80-84
Abstract. This study presents a further support of the logistic law, known in linguistics as Piotrowski law, using data which can be gathered from Kleines Lexikon deutscher Wörter japanischer Herkunft (2008).
Čech, Radek; Mačutek, Ján
Word form and lemma syntactic dependency networks in Czech: a comparative study 85-98

Abstract. We compare several parameters of  word form and lemma syntactic dependency networks in Czech. Models for degree distributions are suggested.
History of Quantitative Linguistics 99-101
Best, Karl-Heinz
XLI. William Palin Elderton (1877-1962)    99-101

Glottometrics ist eine unregelmäßig erscheinende Zeitschrift für die quantitative Erforschung von Sprache und Text.

 

Glottometrics is a scientific journal for the quantitative research on language and text published at irregular intervals

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Herausgeber/Editors:

G. Altmann 02351973070-0001@t-online.de
K.-H. Best kbest@gwdg.de
F. Fan fanfengxiang@yahoo.com 
P. Grzybek peter.grzybek@uni-graz.at 
L. Hrebicek hrebicek@orient.cas.cz
R. Köhler koehler@uni-trier.de
J. Macutek jmacutek@yahoo.com 
G. Wimmer wimmer@mat.savba.sk
A. Ziegler arneziegler@compuserve.de

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