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Word length frequency and distribution in English: Part I. Prose.

Recent observations in the theory of verse and empirical metrics have suggested that constructing a verse line involves a pattern-matching search through a source text, and that the number of found elements (complete words totalling a specified number of syllables) is given by dividing the total num...

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Published in:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 339 - 359
Main Authors: Aoyama, H, Constable, J
Format: Article
Published: Oxford University Press / USA 1999
Subjects:
Syllable (Grammar)
Poisson distribution
English prose literature
Lexicon
Verse satire
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