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Best, Karl-Heinz

The distribution of rhythmic units in German short prose

The study of length of rhythmic units was initiated by K. Marbe (1904). In the present article we try to embed the problem in the general theory of length of linguistic units. It is shown that in modern German prose the length of rhythmic units abides by the Hyperpoisson distribution.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 3, 06/2002
Pages: 136-142

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