Introduction            I
Chapter 1.             Phonemics and script 1
Accent and frequency 1
Canonical syllable structure 1
Canonical word structure 1
Consonants and clusters 2
Distribution of canonical forms 3
Distributional calculus 3
Distributional gaps 5
Evolution of script complexity 5
Exploitation of canonical forms 5
Letter frequency 6
Measurement of distinctivity 6
Measurement of ornamentality 7
Phoneme frequency and word frequency 7
Phoneme inventory and word length 8
Power law      9
Ranking syllable types 9
Script complexity 10
Script simplification 10
Syllable frequency 11
Syllable structure 12
Tendency towards vowel harmony 14
Two-dimensional syllable structure 14
Word length and suprasegmentals 15
Chapter 2.             Grammar 17
Behagel´s “law” 17
Co-occurrence and cohesion 18
Cotextuality and variation 19
Frequency and case 19
Frequency and cohesion 20
Frequency and derivation 20
Frequency and irregularity 21
Frequency and valence 22
Frequency of sentence patterns 22
Grammaticalisation 23
Morph frequency 23
Morpheme polysemy and morpheme frequency 24
Morphological productivity of stems 24
Sequential word class frequency 25
Verb classification 25
Verbs and persons 26
Word class distributions 28
Chapter 3.             Compounds and lexicology 29
Age and compounding propensity 29
Collocations 29
Compound length and component length 30
Compound length and compound cotextuality 31
Compound length and polysemy 31
Compound length and semantic correspondence 32
Compounds and semantic correspondence 32
Compound building and associations 33
Compound building and emotionality 33
Cotextuality and compounding propensity 34
Dissortativity of compounding 34
Distribution of compound length 35
Distribution of synonyms 35
Increase of loan words 36
Lexical chains 37
Lexical networks 38
Stem length and compounding propensity 39
Word length and synonymy 39
Chapter 4.             Textology 41
Association graph of the text 41
Autosemantic pace filling 41
Carroll’s vector 42
Constraint measure for text 43
Cotextuality and frequency 43
Distances between equally long sentences 44
Distances between lexemes 44
Euphony 45
Hirsch-Popescu-point problems 46
Hrebs 47
Hurst´s exponent 49
Köhler´s word length motives 1 50
Köhler´s word length motives 2 50
Köhler´s word length motives 3 51
Köhler´s sentence length motives 52
Lorenz curve 52
Lyapunov coefficient 53
Minkowski sausage 53
n-Grams of length motives 54
Nominal style 55
Phonetic aggregation 56
Polylogue analysis 57
Popescu´s vocabulary richness         58
Ratios 59
Rhythmic units    59
Text difficulty 60
Thematic concentration 61
Tokemes and Lyapunov coefficient 62
Type-token relation 62
Verb profile 63
Vocabulary richness and references 65
Word frequency 1 65
Word frequency 2 66
Word frequency 3 67
Chapter 5.             Frequency and length 68
Distribution of word length 1 68
Distribution of word length 2 68
Distribution of word length and Ord´s criterion 69
Frequency and compounding propensity 69
Frequency and irregularity 70
Frequency and letter utility 71
Frequency and markedness/complexity 71
Frequency and order in freezes           71
Frequency and phoneme complexity 73
Frequency and phoneme form 75
Frequency and production effort 75
Frequency and productivity 76
Frequency and reduction 76
Frequency and variety 78
Length and frequency 79
Length and polysemy 81
Length and word classes 1 82
Length and word classes 2 83
Sentence length and clause length 83
Word length and polytexty 84
Word length and position in sentence 85
Word/morph length and composition 86
Chapter 6.             Semantics, synergetics, psycholinguistics 88
Abstractness 88
Distribution of polysemy 89
Familiarity and frequency 89
Familiarity of slang words 90
Kanji frequency 91
Learning and complexity 91
Learning with children 92
Meaning and frequency 92
Morpheme inventory and morpheme polysemy 93
Morphology vs. phonemics 94
Phoneme inventory vs. morpheme length 95
Polysemy and compounding 95
Semantic classes 96
Semantic diversification          96
Chapter 7.             Typology 98
Entropy and synthetism 98
Homonymy and synonymy of affixes 1 99
Homonymy and synonymy of affixes 2 99
Inflection in general 100
Morph length 101
Popescu´s typological a-indicator 102
Root length and extent of derivation       103
Synthetism in language 104
Vocalic language 104
Word length and congruency 105
Word order and inflection 105
Chapter 8.             Distributions and general problems 107
Distributions 107
Entropy and inventory size 107
Fitting a distribution 108
Hypothesis building using factor analysis 108
Iconicity 109
Index building 109
Menzerath´s law 110
Naranan-Balasubrahmanyan distribution 111
Ord´s criterion         111
Repeat rate and entropy    113
Sample size 113
The problem of infinity 114
Tightness/Cohesion 115
Zipf´s and Zipf-Mandelbrot´s law 116
Chapter 9.  Research projects 117
Frumkina law 117
Skalička´s typological system 119
Synonymy      120
Word frequency and collateral properties 123
Author index 125
Subject index 130

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