Word Frequency Studies / / Ioan-Iovitz Popescu.

The present book finds and collects absolutely new aspects of word frequency. First, eminent characteristics (such as the h-point, first used in scientometrics, the k-, m-, and n-points) are introduced – it can be shown that the geometry of word frequency is fundamentally based on them. Furthermore,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Quantitative Linguistics [QL] , 64
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Problems and presentations
  • 3. The h- and related points
  • 4. The geometry of word frequencies
  • 5. The dynamics of word classes
  • 6. Thematic concentration of the text
  • 7. Crowding, pace filling and compactness
  • 8. Autosemantic text structure
  • 9. Distribution models
  • 10. The relation of frequency to other wordproperties
  • 11. Word frequency and position in sentence
  • 12. The type-token relation
  • 13. Conclusions
  • 14. Appendix: Texts
  • Backmatter