The present article presents an approach to the study of specific arrangements of com-ponents in a separate linguistic or musical text. Concept and definition of the element order in the text are given and related formal models are described. The formulas for the calculation of integral numerical characteristics of element orders in texts, which take into account not only the structure but also the positional arrangement of the text components, are provided for the detailed description of a text. The distribution of numerical characteristics of element orders in a text is presented; so are the samples of research done on the construction of poems and pieces of music.
Volume: 3, 06/2002
Pages: 61-89