Pub Date : 2024-07-17DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2379027
Bo Zhang, Heng Chen
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Pub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2375998
Mengge Wang, Jingyang Jiang
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Pub Date : 2024-07-10DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2374613
Julie Nijs, Freek Van de Velde, Hubert Cuyckens
Though equi-complexity of languages has long been an assumption in the study of language, recent research has argued that languages differ with regard to their morphological complexity. Some langua...
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Pub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2370459
Xinying Chen, Miroslav Kubát
This study investigates the syntactic complexity of various text-types in the Czech language by analysing the mean dependency distance (MDD), a measure that quantifies the average distance between ...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-19DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2367257
Yaqian Shi
Previous studies have explored the validity of the Menzerath-Altmann law in spoken languages from a physical perspective. It has been found that this law fits better when the length of the constitu...
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Pub Date : 2024-06-10DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2363277
Dang Qi, Hua Wang
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Pub Date : 2024-06-06DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2347055
Yaqin Wang, Yiqiong Zhang, Guoliang Zhang, Shengyou He, Jingsong Qi
{"title":"Linguistic Properties of Emojis: A Quantitative Exploration of Emoji Frequency, Category, and Position on Twitter","authors":"Yaqin Wang, Yiqiong Zhang, Guoliang Zhang, Shengyou He, Jingsong Qi","doi":"10.1080/09296174.2024.2347055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09296174.2024.2347055","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45514,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Quantitative Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141377573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-05-26DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2344946
A. Fuchs, M. Schwingenheuer, E. Steinegger, T. Voglmaier
In the following article, we construct an interaction model of general language change. This contributes in particular to quantitative studies on reversible language change initiated by G. Altmann ...
在下面的文章中,我们构建了一个一般语言变化的互动模型。这尤其有助于由 G. Altmann 发起的关于可逆语言变化的定量研究...
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Pub Date : 2024-05-05DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2344944
Robert Nelson
Herein the author of Nelson (2023) addresses the claims made in Gries (2024).
在此,纳尔逊(2023 年)的作者回应了格里斯(2024 年)的说法。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-02DOI: 10.1080/09296174.2024.2339718
Published in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《定量语言学杂志》(2024 年提前出版)
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