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• Polysemy in quantitative linguistics
  '''[[Polysemy]]''' is defined in [[Quantitative Linguistics]] as the number of different [[meaning]]s or [[function]]s of a linguistic unit. ...inguistic unit. E.g., the polysemy of a word may be operationalised as the number of meanings given in a specific dictionary.
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• Numeral
  A '''numeral''' is a member of a [[word class]] whose members are used to express numbers in one way or another (fo ...r]] in the sense of singular/plural and similar distinctions. Numerals are word that express precise numbers such as 'one', 'two', 'three', 'seventy-seven'
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• Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
  ...ern, or initial phoneme. This phenomenon suggests that certain features of word structure are stored independently of others.
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• Polytextuality
  ...r misleading term). The P. of a morpheme might be measured in terms of the number of different words it occurs in (by some authors confused with the term "pr Word P. morpheme P. and other units have been investigated with respect to their
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• Morphosyntactic category
  ...particular. We will therefore refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66) *Matthews, Peter H. 1974. ''Morphology: an introduction to the theory of word-structure.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Logogen model
  ...decrease), the important role of context allows for the possibility that a word is recognised that deviates strongly from the acoustic input. * Morton, J. 1969. 'Interaction of information in word recognition.' ''Psychological Review'' 76, 165-178
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• Expletive
  The term '''expletive''' is used in a number of different ways: * in nontechnical usage, it refers to a rude word (such as ''bloody'' or ''fucking''); see [[expletive infixation]];
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• Category (system)
  ...particular. We will therefore refer to the intersecting categories of the word...as '''morphosyntactic categories''' specifically."'' (Matthews 1974:66) *Matthews, Peter H. 1974. ''Morphology: an introduction to the theory of word-structure.'' Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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• Boundary
  ...-boundary or formative-boundary [[affix]] (i.e. ''+ity''), and ''-ness'' a word-boundary [[affix]] (i.e. ''#ness''). ...h [[suffix]]es ''-ity'' and ''-ness'' behave differently with respect to a number of phonological rules, as shown in (i).
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• Null morpheme
  ...ms of the same word showing alternate morphemes. For example, the singular number of English nouns is shown by a null morpheme that contrasts with the plural ...clean, to slow, to warm. Null derivation, also known as conversion if the word class changes, is very common in English.
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• Frequency (pragmatics)
  ...uency, or more correctly frequency of occurrence, is the number of times a word appears in the language, usually measured in occurrences per million words.
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• Frumkina's Law
  ...q. The probability p is also a random variable since the application of a word is not independent of its co-text. Under the assumption that p is distribut * Determination of the class of the unit (e.g., part of speech of a word)
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• Anticipatory shortening
  ...a [[vowel]] in the first [[syllable]] of a [[word]] is shortened when the number of syllables that follow the [[stress]]ed syllable increases. This effect i
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• First Sister Principle
  ...h resemble verbal phrases (in our example ''drive a truck'') by means of a number of [[lexical transformation]]s. See [[First Order Projection Condition]].
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• Lexical morphology
  ...esent here a brief outline of Kiparsky's (1982) model, and next refer to a number of publications in which this model has undergone more or less significant ...mation and syntactic processes. Since the appearance of Kiparsky's paper a number of different models of Lexical Morphology/Phonology have been proposed, mak
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• End rule
  ...assigns main word stress applies domain-finally at the line indicated with number 3 and adds a grid mark to the rightmost column above the penultimate syllab
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• Rich agreement
  ...] (or [[cross-referencing]]) paradigms that distinguish most or all person-number combinations and therefore make the use of [[independent pronoun]]s redunda Italian has the folloiwng person-number paradigm, which is said to exibit rich agreement:
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• Cohort model
  In phonetics, a '''cohort model''' is a theory of auditory word recognition. ...competitors early on in the processing of a word. Only later, when a small number of candidates still fits the sensory input, context starts to affect the ac
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• Derivation (morphology)
  ''Derivation'' has a number of other senses: * the process of [[to derive|deriving]] a complex word A on the basis of a [[base]] B.
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• Text-to-Speech
  ...lysis of sentences, and morphological decomposition (in order to split the word up in morphemes and to predict lexical stress). Then there is the phonetic
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• Frequency (Quantitative linguistics)
  ...Zipf (Zipf-Mandelbrot) law, or in the spectral form, which represents the number of units with a given frequency; ...of occurrence: sounds or phonemes, letters, syllables, morph(em)s, words, word classes such as part-of-speech, and even higher units such as syntactic con
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• Infix
  [[Tagalog]], a language spoken at the Philippines, has a number of infixes. From the monomorphemic root ''sulat'' 'writing' the derived ver ...erm ''infix'' is also used for [[adfix]]es that occur nonperipherally in a word, but not inside another morpheme. However, this usage of ''infix'' is usual
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• Derivation
  The term '''derivation''' is used in a number of different senses: * in [[:category:morphology|morphology]], it refers to word formation through the association of dependent and independent morphemes; s
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• Lexicon
  ...ent of a linguistic system which can be regarded as a list or network of [[word]]s or [[lexical entry|lexical entries]] (also [[lexical item]]s, [[lexeme]] ...more complex. Next to a list of underived lexical entries, it contains a [[word formation]] component. Hence, in this approach morphology is an integrated
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• Property
  ...notice that there is a lawful relation between the number of meanings of a word and its length).
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• Viktor Jakovlevič Bunjakovskij
  In 1883, Bunjakovskij, who mostly worked in the realm of number theory and probability theory, published his catalogue of scientific works ...he distribution of these words according to the parts of speech, about the number of letters, about the initial letters, the endings, etc. etc. Also general
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• Inflection
  ...ded by inflectional morphemes include [[Phi-features]] (e.g. [[person]], [[number]], [[gender]], [[case]]), [[mood]], [[tense]], and [[aspect]]. * Aronoff, M. 1976. ''Word Formation in Generative Grammar,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Morpheme
  ...seems to contribute some sort of meaning, or a grammatical function to the word to which it belongs, and (b) cannot itself be decomposed into smaller morph The concept "morpheme" is not uncontroversial. A number of linguists dispute the explanatory power of the morpheme as a theoretical
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• Loan creation
  ...''' denotes a type of contact-induced lexical change whereby a new complex word is created matching a foreign model semantically, but completely independen :::*''"'''Creation'''. Loanword lists are often made to include a number of terms whose existence may ultimately be due to contact with a second cul
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• Theory
  ...nding goal of scientific research and can be undertaken only if and when a number of interrelated laws has been found. There is much confusion about the term ...i.e., dx/x). In our example, it is not the absolute increase in usage of a word that causes its shortening but the relative one. The discrete approach is a
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• Stem
  '''Stem''' is a term which is commonly used for the uninflected part of a word. A stem is a morphological constituent to which [[affix]]es may be attached ...'' to the root ''hípp+o-'' 'horse'. The inflectional endings for case and number are added to these forms. Traditionally, the forms ''géphura-'' and ''hi
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• Foot
  ...contain at most two syllables and unbounded ones may contain an indefinite number of syllables. Within feet, one of the syllables is dominant, i.e. the head * Selkirk, E.O. 1981. ''English Compounding and the Theory of Word-structure,'' in: M. Moortgat, H. Van der Hulst & T. Hoestra (eds.) The
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• Auxiliary verb
  An '''auxiliary (verb)''' is a [[verb]]-like [[function word]] that combines with a [[main verb]] and typically helps to express various ::*''"For a number of authors, including the present one, the use of the term ''auxiliary'' is
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• Stress
  ...'''stress''' refers to an abstract property of [[syllable]]s within the [[word domain]]. Stressed syllables are pronounced with more [[prominence]] than u There is only one primary stress position per word. Only syllables with a vocalic nucleus may be stressed.
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• Argument structure
  ...general case)... Argument structure encodes lexical information about the number of arguments, their syntactic type, and their hierarchical organization nec * Di Sciullo, A. M. and E. Williams 1987. ''On the Definition of Word,'' MIT-press, Cambridge, Mass.
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• Siwi
  ...rom ''Sīwah'', the Arabic name of the main oasis where Siwi is spoken; the word is also used in Siwi. The Siwi name of the oasis and of its inhabitants is ...link]), was 17,675; of these, most are Siwi speakers. No estimate of the number of Arabic-speaking immigrants in town is available, but the western village
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• Affix
  ...n. Affixes have a predictable function and can typically attach to a large number of words whereas compounds tend to be more restricted. ...hs which do not realise lexemes and which are attached to roots to produce word-forms are called '''affixes'''.”'' (Bauer 1988:11)
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• Agreement
  *Agreement of [[article]] and [[adjective]] with [[noun]] in [[number]] and [[gender (morphology)|gender]]: *[[Steele, Susan]]. 1978. "Word order variation: a typological study." In: [[Greenberg, Joseph H.]] & [[Fer
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• Japanese
  ...ym '''Nihongo'' [nihõ̞ŋgo̞]' is the Japanese pronunciation of the compound word 日本語 which consists of two parts; 日本 (''nihon''; Japan) and 語 (g ...e speakers. It is estimated at 126,000,000, a number which is based on the number of inhabitants in Japan.
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• History of quantitative linguistics
  ...siderations in German QL. He set up, among others, a mathematical model of word length distributions and performed various investigations into language, li
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• Code-switching
  ...-switching) "occurs when a bilingual introduces a completely unassimilated word from another language into his speech."'' (Haugen 1956:40) ...switch occurs between words or phrases (it may also occur within the same word). Both sentences together provide an example of [[intersentential codeswitc
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• Irish
  ...n the southern (Munster) dialect, stress falls on the second syllable of a word if that syllable contains a long vowel or diphthong. If the second syllable ...asculine and feminine [[gender (grammar)|gender]]s, are declined for two [[number]]s (singular and plural) and four [[case]]s ([[nominative]], [[genitive]],
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• Main Page
  ...; [[Special:Allpages|All articles A–Z]]  -  Number of articles: [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]]  -  ...culation]], [[Maximal Onset Principle]], [[metrical phonology]], [[minimal word constraint]], [[nasal]], [[natural class]], [[pitch accent (lexical)]], [[
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• Jan Czekanowski
  ...ty) of two languages as well as a contingency table (Tab.1) containing the number of features shared between the languages compared (''ibid''. 21–22). ...2004. ''Multidimensional scaling in the analysis of language corpora (from word frequencies to the map of Europe)''. Research paper presented at the 28. A
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• Wincenty Lutosławski
  ...ly involves the semantic, syntactic, and morphologic representation of the number, dimensions, and intensities of attributes, and thus does not touch upon th ...ovided that their different importance is taken into account, and that the number of observed peculiarities is sufficient to determine the stylistic characte
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• Jerzy Woronczak
  where <math>f_i</math> is the frequency of the i-th word-form, and N the length of the sample¹ . ...ies Zipf discovered between the frequencies of expressions, their lengths, number of meanings, and rank are generally known as "Zipf’s laws". They stimulat
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• Gustav Herdan
  ...nge and blending, applications of information theory, type-token relation, word length and frequency distributions, interrelations between text length and ...reted them, more often than his methods. Nevertheless, he produced quite a number of approaches whose continuation could open up new vistas in linguistics.
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• Cohesion
  ...1), the set of given sentences can be identified as a text, because “[t]he word text is used in linguistics to refer to any passage, spoken or written, of ...) the reader has to look at the whole sentence to make sense of the second word “it” which refers to the specific item “watch” at the end.
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• Swedish Phonology
  * when it follows a single consonant or when the vowel is at the end of the word, ...flection or word formation when the vowel was already long in the original word,
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