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The present volume presents objective methods to detect and analyse various forms of repetitions. Repetition of textual elements is more than a superficial phenomenon. It may even be considered as constitutive for units and relations in a text: on a primary level when no other way exists to establish a unit – as in a musical composition (a motif can be recognised as such only after at least one repetition) – and on a secondary, artistic level, where repetition is a consequence of the transfer of the equivalence principle from the paradigmatic axis to the syntagmatic one as showed by R. Jakobson. The analysis of repetitive elements and structures in texts with objective mathematical means can serve several practical and theoretical purposes, among them: Characterisation of texts by means of parameters (measures, indicators) as taken from established mathematical statistics or specifically constructed ones in individual cases. Comparison of texts on the basis of their quantitative characteristics and classification of the texts by the results. Research for the laws of text, which control the mechanisms connected to text creation. As a remote aim, the construction of a theory of text consisting of a system of text laws. The final attempt of every possible quantitative text analysis is the construction of a text theory. The book illustrates this on examples of such laws and corresponding empirical tests.

Linguistics -- Methodology. --- Linguistics -- Statistical methods. --- Repetition (Rhetoric). --- Writing -- Mathematical models. --- Writing --- Repetition (Rhetoric) --- Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Literary style --- Chirography --- Handwriting --- Ciphers --- Penmanship --- Mathematical models --- Statistical methods --- Methodology --- Mathematical models. --- Statistical methods. --- Methodology. --- Linguistics, Statistical --- Statistical linguistics --- Mathematical linguistics --- Statistique linguistique. --- Linguistique --- Méthodologie. --- quantitative linguistics, repetition analysis. --- quantitative text analysis, statistical methodology.

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The present book finds and collects absolutely new aspects of word frequency. First, eminent characteristics (such as the h-point, first used in scientometrics, the k-, m-, and n-points) are introduced - it can be shown that the geometry of word frequency is fundamentally based on them. Furthermore, various indicators of text properties are proposed for the first time, such as thematic concentration, autosemantic text compactness, autosemantic density, etc. In detail, the autosemantic structure of a given text is evaluated by means of a graph representation and its properties (according to a problem from network research). Special emphasis is given to the part-of-speech differentiation, which plays a significant role in stylistics. On the basis of a general theory, which has been developed especially for linguistic research, problems of the frequency structure of texts with respect to word occurrence are investigated and discussed in detail. Methodologically, specific reference is made to synergetic linguistics, including some exemplary analyses, showing that there are points of contact with this field. A separate chapter is dedicated to within-sentence word position; this issue considers grammar as well as language genesis; another chapter is dedicated to the type-token ratio, discussing all established methods and their relevance for word frequency analysis. All methods presented in the book are statistically tested; to this end, some new tests have been developed. All procedures and calculations are conducted for 20 languages, ranging from Polynesia, Indonesia, India, and Europe to a North American Indian language. The broad distribution of the data and texts from all genres allows generalizations with respect to language typology.

Language and languages --- Linguistics. --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Frequency counts of words --- Frequency word lists --- Word counts --- Word frequency --- Frequency (Linguistics) --- Linguistics --- Vocabulary --- Word frequency. --- Statistical methods --- Mathematical linguistics --- Linguistic Data. --- Statistic Analysis. --- Text Structure. --- Typology.

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