[Corpora-List] How long is the sentence?

[Michal Ptaszynski]

Dear Yuri,

> why different writers have different length of sentences. Is it  
> connected with their brains?

Perhaps some of them want to have longer... sentences ;)

But for serious, I think just taking an average of all sentences is not
actually telling you anything.
An interesting insight could give checking, for example, for the following,
- swapping between long and short sentences (length fluctuation)
- cross-reference of the sentence length with other information, e.g.,
type of sentence, (descriptive, question, expressive), topic, opinion or
affect (at present I am checking correlations of sentence length with the
last one on a large corpus, but no interesting results so far).

Best,

Michal


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Od: "Yuri Tambovtsev" <yutamb at mail.ru>
Do: <corpora at uib.no>
Data: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 17:25:06 +0700
Temat: [Corpora-List] How long is the sentence?

Dear colleagues, how long is the sentence of every writer? I measured how
many words the sentence contains. I took British and American writers.
Really I cannot understand why different writers have different length of
sentences. Is it connected with their brains? Or is it because they were
taught differently? Are there many articles published on that? Looking
forward to hearing from you to yutamb at mail.ru  Be well, Yuri Tambovtsev,
Novosibirsk, Russia

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