Noun distribution in natural languages

• Autorzy: Junying Liang , Haitao Liu
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Previous research on word class distribution claimed that 37% of word tokens are nouns, suggesting that there might exist a certain regularity of noun proportion among human languages. To explore this possibility, we examined the proportion of noun and four other word classes within British and American English, and across seven languages in terms of different word frequency band. Results indicated that the noun proportion is evidently about or larger than 37%, and meanwhile increases with word rarity. Among frequent words, nouns increase as minor word classes decrease, whereas among rare words, the noun proportion remains a stable level.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

noun; word classes; distribution; word frequency; corpus

• Wydawca: De Gruyter
• Czasopismo: Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics
• Rocznik: 2013
• Tom: 49
• Strony: 509-529

Daty

wydano

2013

otrzymano

2013-07-04

poprawiono

2013-11-06

zaakceptowano

2013-11-08

Twórcy

autor

Junying Liang

• Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

autor

Haitao Liu

• Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China,

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.1515/psicl-2013-0019