Glottometrics 34 RAM - Verlag 2016
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چکیده
R-motifs, formed from categorical instead of quantitative sequences, are used to characterise texts with respect to parts of speech as a syntactic feature. The attempt to classify the end-of-year speeches of the Italian presidents by means of not more than some parameters of the of the thus formed motifs fails. Instead, it could be shown that Ord's criteria and two other characteristics of the empirical frequency distributions of the motifs reveal a continuous development over time which follows the Piotrowski-Altmann Law.
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