Recent Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics.

Intro -- Editors' Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Quantitative Analysis of Poetic Space: Discrimination of Loci in Eugene Onegin by A. S. Pushkin -- Application of the Menzerath-Altmann Law to Contemporary Written Japanese in the Short Story Style -- Menzerath-Altmann Law in Differently Segmented Texts -- A New Universal Code Helps to Distinguish Natural Language from Random Texts -- The Advantages of Quantitative Studies for Dialectology -- Type-token relation for word length motifs in Ukrainian texts -- Gender Identification in Modern Greek Tweets -- Syntactic Complexity in Quantitative Linguistics -- Measuring Proximity Between Source and Target Texts: an Exploratory Study -- Evolutionary Derivation of Laws for Polysemic and Age-Polysemic Distributions of Language Sign Ensembles -- Quantitative Studies in the Corpus of Nko Periodicals -- The Co-occurrence and Order of Valency in Japanese Sentences -- Authorship Attribution Using Political Speeches -- Using Rates of Change as a Diagnostic of Vowel Phonologization -- Diversification in the Noun Inflection of Old English -- Tracing the History of Words -- Grammar Efficiency and the Idealization of Parts-of-speech Systems -- Structural Complexity of Simplified Chinese Characters -- On the Robust Measurement of Inflectional Diversity -- The influence of Word Unit and Sentence Length on the Ratio of Parts of Speech in Japanese Texts -- References -- Index of Names -- Subject Index.

The series Quantitative Linguistics publishes books on all aspects of quantitative methods and models in linguistics, text analysis and related research fields. Specifically, the scope of the series covers the whole spectrum of theoretical and empirical research, ultimately striving for an exact mathematical formulation and empirical testing of hypotheses: observation and description of linguistic data, application of methods and models, discussion of methodological and epistemological issues, modelling of language and text phenomena.

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