Intertextuality and Sociolectal Differentiation in Old Saxon and Old English Verse: A Stylometric Analysis Using N-grams.
This essay examines the relationship between Old Saxon and Old English poetry using computational stylometry, specifically n-gram analysis. The shared n-grams indicate that the two verse corpora are so closely related that they can be considered expressions of the same poetic language. The Old Saxon...
| Publicado en: | Modern Philology Vol. 119; no. 4; pp. 443 - 468 |
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University of Chicago Press
May2022
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