Forms and Degrees of Repetition in Texts : Detection and Analysis.

Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The universe of discourse -- 1.2 Forms of repetitions -- 1.3 Prolegomena for a future text theory -- 2 Shapeless Repetition -- 2.1 Phonic effects -- 2.2 Two variables -- 2.2.1 The activity index -- 2.2.2 Excursus -- 2.2.3 Comparing activity indices -- 2.3 Global indicators -- 2.3.1 Entropy -- 2.3.2 Comparison of two entropy values -- 2.3.3 The repeat rate -- 2.3.4 Moments of distributions -- 2.4 Modelling using probability distributions -- 2.5 Some text laws -- 2.5.1 The Zipf-Mandelbrot Law -- 2.5.2 The Simon-Herdan Model -- 2.5.3 Hrebícek's Reference Law -- 2.5.4 Type-Token Models -- 2.5.5 Perspectives -- 3 Positional repetition -- 3.1 The rhyme in "Erlkönig" -- 3.2 Open rhymes -- 3.3 The gradual climax -- 3.3.1 The linear climax -- 3.3.2 Reduced climax -- 3.3.3 The exponential climax -- 3.4 Other positional repetitions -- 4 Associative repetition -- 4.1 Associative repetition of two words -- 4.1.1 Short texts -- 4.1.2 Long texts -- 4.2 Presentation -- 4.3 The minimal (acyclic) graph -- 4.4 Vistas -- 5 Iterative repetition -- 5.1 Binary sequences -- 5.2 Large samples -- 5.3 Comparison of runs in two texts -- 5.4 Runs of more than two kinds of elements -- 6 Aggregative repetition -- 6.1 Random distances: binary data -- 6.2 Models of aggregation trends -- 6.3 Brainerd's Markov-chain model -- 6.4 Non-binary data -- 6.5 Similarity aggregation -- 6.6 Vistas -- 7 Repetition in blocks -- 7.1 The Frumkina law -- 7.2 Testing the Frumkina law -- 7.3 Vistas -- 8 Parallel repetitions -- 8.1 Cochran's Q-test -- 8.2 Analysis of variance -- 8.3 The chi-square test -- 9 Cyclic repetition -- 9.1 Fourier analysis -- 10 Summary -- References -- Index -- Foreword -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The universe of discourse -- 1.2 Forms of repetitions -- 1.3 Prolegomena for a future text theory.

2 Shapeless Repetition -- 2.1 Phonic effects -- 2.2 Two variables -- 2.2.1 The activity index -- 2.2.2 Excursus -- 2.2.3 Comparing activity indices -- 2.3 Global indicators -- 2.3.1 Entropy -- 2.3.2 Comparison of two entropy values -- 2.3.3 The repeat rate -- 2.3.4 Moments of distributions -- 2.4 Modelling using probability distributions -- 2.5 Some text laws -- 2.5.1 The Zipf-Mandelbrot Law -- 2.5.2 The Simon-Herdan Model -- 2.5.3 Hrebícek's Reference Law -- 2.5.4 Type-Token Models -- 2.5.5 Perspectives -- 3 Positional repetition -- 3.1 The rhyme in "Erlkönig" -- 3.2 Open rhymes -- 3.3 The gradual climax -- 3.3.1 The linear climax -- 3.3.2 Reduced climax -- 3.3.3 The exponential climax -- 3.4 Other positional repetitions -- 4 Associative repetition -- 4.1 Associative repetition of two words -- 4.1.1 Short texts -- 4.1.2 Long texts -- 4.2 Presentation -- 4.3 The minimal (acyclic) graph -- 4.4 Vistas -- 5 Iterative repetition -- 5.1 Binary sequences -- 5.2 Large samples -- 5.3 Comparison of runs in two texts -- 5.4 Runs of more than two kinds of elements -- 6 Aggregative repetition -- 6.1 Random distances: binary data -- 6.2 Models of aggregation trends -- 6.3 Brainerd's Markov-chain model -- 6.4 Non-binary data -- 6.5 Similarity aggregation -- 6.6 Vistas -- 7 Repetition in blocks -- 7.1 The Frumkina law -- 7.2 Testing the Frumkina law -- 7.3 Vistas -- 8 Parallel repetitions -- 8.1 Cochran's Q-test -- 8.2 Analysis of variance -- 8.3 The chi-square test -- 9 Cyclic repetition -- 9.1 Fourier analysis -- 10 Summary -- References -- 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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