Some Typological Characteristics of Czech and English and Other European Languages
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Numerous attempts have beenmade to compare different types of languages from the viewpoint of their quantitative characteristics. We present a piece of research in five Indo-European languages focused on length of sentences and words, not drawing any general conclusions but bringing some partial findings about these languages’ general measurable features.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Prague Bull. Math. Linguistics
دوره 92 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009