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How often a linguistic element occurs relative to other linguistic elements.

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Geographic distribution of ‘I haven’t’ and ‘I’ve not’

The answer to this question on English Language & Usage discusses a possible difference between American and British dialects in their use of ‘I’ve not’ and ‘I haven’t’. I have noticed ‘I’ve not’ ...
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Mandarin Chinese syllable and tone frequency (not character frequency)

There's plenty of good resources on Chinese character frequency available. But I'm wondering about syllable frequency independent of characters, and also tone frequency both separate and in ...
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Is there a phoneme distribution graph for multiple European languages?

I am doing some research on a manuscript which I need to identify the language. My hypothesis is that it is written in phoneme by someone who does not understand the language. Spoken aloud, one that ...
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Distribution of the set of meanings of a given word, in a corpus

I am looking to know about the distribution of word senses, of a particular word in a corpus. How often a word sense will occur out of all the occurrences of that word with any meaning. For example: ...
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Dealing with words having token-frequency 1 when calculating Phonotactic Probability

NOTE This is a repost of a question on the Mathematics StackExchange Board. It has been modified to fit this board :) I am open to suggestions Explanation I am trying to calculate phonotactic ...
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How does Praat map quantized values to frequency statistics?

I'm working with 16-bit WAV files. As far as I understand, amplitude is measured at a sampling rate of 44100 samples/second (i.e. Hertz), with each sample being represented as binary data through ...
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Does an alphabet with the uniform letter frequency distribution exist?

A language employs some kind of alphabet for writing. One could naïvely expect that each letter bears the same amount of entropy. But in reality that is not the case. For example in English each ...
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The usage frequency of individual English words

I'm very new to NLP and I'm sure this question is a rookie one. In NLP for English language, how do we tell if a word is commonly used, from one that is not commonly used? What is the simplest measure?...
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Connection between word usage frequency and number of synonyms for the word

At a first glance it seems to be obvious/expectable (at least to some extent) that the more frequently a word is used in language the more synonyms it should have. Can somebody point out whether this ...
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What mechanism of language can be used to explain competitive synonyms similar to high-frequency word?

Suppose we have two competitive synonyms A and B. We found out that during the historical changes of the language, A gains dominant position. We found out the fact above via a statistical survey of ...
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Embedding conditional statements in relative and complement clauses

I happened to run across the following sentence on ELL.SE: Anyone who feels that if so many more students whom we haven't actually admitted are sitting in on the course than ones we have that the ...
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Praat: How does pitch floor affect number of frames?

With reference to the documentation for the ToPitch function, http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/manual/Sound__To_Pitch___.html pitch floor will determine the length of the analysis window, and always ...
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Praat: Interpretation of row number when inspecting sound file

When I inspect a sound file in Praat, I see the following picture: I understand that Praat creates a ny x nx matrix using these values, and that 'nx' refers to the number of frames in the WAV file. ...
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How to determine word frequency based on demographic? (Does a public library of word frequencies exist by demographic)

I'm not sure "sign post" questions are appropriate however that is what this is. I am looking for a tool, a means of answering questions such as "Word X is used more by demographic Y than demographic ...
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Complete List of English Compound Words?

I am looking for a complete list of English compound words (or a frequency list of English compound words). Ideally, I'd prefer a list that lists the compound word and also its constituent words (for ...
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Most commonly occuring bi-personal endings?

Let's say you had a language where all the possible combinations of person and number for both subject and object were marked by a single fusional morpheme. If you were writing a book teaching this ...
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