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The present study aims at the quantitative classification of texts and text types. By way of a case study, 398 Slovenian texts from different genres and authors are analyzed as to their word length. It is shown that word length is an important factor in the synergetic self-regulation of texts and text types, and that word length may significantly contribute to a new typology of discourse types.2
This study is related to research project #15485 (Word Length Frequencies in Slavic Texts), supported by the Austrian Research Fund (FWF).
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Grzybek, P., Stadlober, E., Kelih, E., Antić, G. (2005). Quantitative Text Typology: The Impact of Word Length. In: Weihs, C., Gaul, W. (eds) Classification — the Ubiquitous Challenge. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28084-7_5
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