Contributions to the Science of Text and Language
Subtitle: Word Length Studies and Related Issues (Text, Speech and Language Technology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781402040672
Subjects: Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure; Mathematics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Science/Mathematics; Grammar; Linguistics; Logic; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines : Grammar; Mathematics : Logic; Morphology; semiotic; text; word; Computational linguistics; Congresses; Language and languages; Statistical methods; Word frequency
Description: This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editorâ€™s preface. The bookâ€™s first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies. The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.