30.256, Books: Zipf’s law in aphasic speech: van Egmond

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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:42:17
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot`@uva.nl]
Subject: Zipf’s law in aphasic speech: van Egmond

 


Title: Zipf’s law in aphasic speech 
Subtitle: An investigation of word frequency distributions 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/zipfs-law-in-aphasic-speech-an-investigation-of-word-frequency-distributions 


Author: Marjolein van Egmond

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932984 Pages: 254 Price: Europe EURO 33.00


Abstract:

Word frequencies in a text follow a curious pattern. A few of them appear
extremely frequently, while by far most of them appear only once or twice.
This pattern is considered a law of word frequencies, and better known as
Zipf’s law. The existence of this law has been known for more than a century.
And yet it is still largely covered in a veil of mystery.

This dissertation aims to somewhat lift that veil. It presents a thorough
discussion of the hypotheses for the existence of Zipf’s law. It is shown how
the values of the parameters of Zipf’s law vary depending on medium (written
or spoken) and text length. These insights are then used to study Zipf’s law
in different types of aphasic speech: in long samples from Dutch non-fluent
aphasic speakers and in short samples from English, Greek and Hungarian fluent
and non-fluent aphasic speakers. It is shown that aphasia influences the
values of the parameters, as does the language under consideration. But in all
cases, Zipf’s law continues to apply. This finding strengthens the hypothesis
that the system for word retrieval in aphasia is still intact.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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