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Download or read book Contributions to the Science of Text and Language written by Peter Grzybek and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Required reading for computational linguists, this work contains a series of important contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length. The book includes an introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies. The studies included unify contributions from three crucial fields of study in linguistics: linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and database design. Together they provide a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language.