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Vocabulary Richness of Novels and Their Adaptations

by Maria Csernoch (Author)
©2011 Monographs 200 Pages
Series: Metalinguistica, Volume 24

Summary

A first-order statistical model was implemented to follow the vocabulary changes in literary works. The model only takes into account the frequency of the words of a text; it is thus independent of syntactic and semantic constrains. Using this model a characteristic pattern was found, describing these changes in vocabulary and being unique to each text. The pattern not only identifies the vocabulary-rich segments but enables the user to compare the vocabulary of different texts. The work focuses on comparing foreign language translations, condensation, and lemmatization of texts. It provides evidence that lemmatization alone does not alter the characteristic pattern. On the other hand, changes in this pattern in translated texts reveal how faithful translators are considering the vocabulary they use.

Details

Pages
200
Publication Year
2011
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631612231
Language
English
Keywords
statistical analyses condensation hapax legomena foreign language translations lemmatization
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 197 pp., num. fig. and tables

Biographical notes

Maria Csernoch (Author)

Mária Csernoch, born in 1963 in Hungary, holds degrees in Mathematics, Informatics and English. She earned her PhD in Informatics studying the introduction of word types in literary works using statistical methods. She currently works at the Department of Information Technology, University of Debrecen (Hungary) as an associate professor.

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