Alberti's letter counts
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چکیده
Four centuries before modern statistical linguistics was born, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) compared the frequency of vowels in Latin poems and orations, making the first quantified observation of a stylistic difference ever. Using a corpus of 20 Latin texts (over 5 million letters), Alberti’s observations are statistically assessed. Letter counts prove that poets used significantly more a’s, e’s, and y ’s, whereas orators used more of the other vowels. The sample sizes needed to justify the assertions are studied, and proved to be within reach for Alberti’s scholarship.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
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دوره 29 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014