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Andersen, Simone

Word length balance in texts:Proportion constancy and word-chain-lengths in Proust's longest sentence

Constancy phenomena in word length distributions of texts are demonstrated. The regularity of prop­ortions is shown by intercorrelation of parts under differing kinds of partitioning. Length homo­geneity r? as a measure for the stability of the values of the distribution is developed. Balance number B refers to word-chains in line: Every B words the total number of syllables tends to be equal, indicated by decreased variance.

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 11, 09/2005
Pages: 32-50

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