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How to Measure Word Length in Spoken and Written Chinese

Heng ChenCenter for the Study of Language and Cognition, Zhejiang University, ChinaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Haitao LiuDepartment of Linguistics, Zhejiang University, China;Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, China
Pages 5-29 | Published online: 23 Feb 2016

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Xinpei Hong, Wei Huang & Haitao Liu. (2023) The Structural Complexity of Chinese Words and Its Relationship with Word Frequency. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 0:0, pages 1-26.
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Jieqiang Zhu & Jingyang Jiang. (2023) Synergetic Properties of Lexical Structures in Chinese and English. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 30:2, pages 204-230.
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Aiyun Wei, Qian Lu & Haitao Liu. (2021) Word Length Distribution in Zhuang Language. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 28:3, pages 195-222.
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Fei Lian & Yuan Li. (2021) Word Length Distribution in German Texts during the 17th-19th Century. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 28:2, pages 117-137.
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Wei Guan. (2020) Probability Distribution of Represented Sources in Conversations of Adults and Children. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 27:4, pages 334-360.
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Kun Sun & Lili Zhang. (2018) Quantitative Aspects of PDTB-Style Discourse Relations across Languages. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 25:4, pages 342-371.
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Jinghui Ouyang & Jingyang Jiang. (2018) Can the Probability Distribution of Dependency Distance Measure Language Proficiency of Second Language Learners?. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 25:4, pages 295-313.
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Yu Fang & Yaqin Wang. (2018) Quantitative Linguistic Research of Contemporary Chinese. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 25:2, pages 107-121.
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Heng Chen & Yaqin Wang. (2023) How does language evolve as a multi-level system? A quantitative exploration of written Chinese. Language Sciences 98, pages 101554.
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Wanwan Zheng & Mingzhe Jin. (2023) Is word length inaccurate for authorship attribution?. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 38:2, pages 875-890.
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Yaqin Wang & Heng Chen. (2022) The Menzerath-Altmann law on the clause level in English texts. Linguistics Vanguard 8:1, pages 331-346.
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Renkui Hou, Chu-Ren Huang & Kathleen Ahrens. (2022) Regional varieties and diachronic changes in Chinese political discourse. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9:1.
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Zheyuan Dai, Haitao Liu & Jianwei Yan. (2022) Revisiting English written VP-ellipsis and VP-substitution: a dependency-based analysis. Linguistics Vanguard 0:0.
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Heng Chen & Haitao Liu. (2022) Approaching language levels and registers in written Chinese with the Menzerath–Altmann Law. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 37:4, pages 934-948.
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Renkui Hou, Chu-Ren Huang, Kathleen Ahrens & Yat-Mei Sophia Lee. (2019) Linguistic characteristics of Chinese register based on the Menzerath—Altmann law and text clustering. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities.
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Heng Chen & Haitao Liu. (2018) Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years. Complexity 2018, pages 1-12.
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