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Rottmann, O.

Word length in the Baltic languages – are they of the same type as the word lengths in the Slavic languages?

In our present analysis we found that word length in the two living Baltic languages and the majority of the Slavic languages (see 4.0) is controlled by the Extended Positive Binomial distribution (EPB) (with the rest of the Slavic languages being governed by members of the distribution family to which the EPB distribution belongs) which leads to the assumption that Baltic and Slavic languages do not only stem from a common evolutionary branch and are therefore members of a diachronically oriented language family, but it is also possible to find individual phenomena at synchronous level subsuming the languages concerned under one type, in our case the type of .

Glottometrics, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 6, 03/2003
Pages: 52-60

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