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Josef Vachek,Written Language, General Problems and Problems of English. The Hague and Paris: Mouton, 1970.
Eckhard Wolf,Vom Buchstaben zum Laut, Maschinelle Erzeugung und Erprobung vom Umsetzautomaten am Beispiel Schriftenglisch-Phonologisches Englisch. Braunschweig: Vieweg1977.
These are drawn from “Century of Prose Corpus,” 100 selections of 2000 words each, ten per decade in ten different genres, currently being compiled.
Eugene A. Hammel, D.W. Hutchison, K.W. Wachter, R.T. Lundy, and Ruth Z. Deuel,The SOCSIM Demographic-Sociological Microsimulation Program Operating Manual. Research Series No. 27. Berkeley: Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1976; and Eugene A. Hammel and Ruth Z. Deuel,Five Classy Programs. Research Series No. 33. Berkeley: Institute for International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1977.
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“APS” is the Augustan Prose Sample, a corpus of 52 selections of English prose published 1675–1725, available in machine-readable form, and compiled by the reviewer. See my forthcoming “What Is a Prose Corpus: The Augustan Prose Sample.” “BC” is the well-known Brown Corpus compiled by W. Nelson Francis and Henry Kučera.
Dugast cites the very largeTrésor de la langue française, consisting (for the 19th Century) of 32.7 million words with aV of 47 628 and (for the 19 and 20th Centuries) of 70.3 million words with aV of 71 415. Although these figures are lower than might be expected from a comparison with BC (table 1), there is the factor of lemmatization in an inflected language to consider. In any case, it is doubtful that aV of 71 415 is near the limit.
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G.H. Berry-Rogghe wrote the wordcount and concordance package COCOA; presently she is involved in the implementation of a German question-answering system (PLIDIS) at the Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim.
author ofSpinoza's Theory of Truth, and of articles dealing with aspects of Spinoza's methodology, epistemology, and metaphysics.
has been active in quantitative sylistics for over two decades; he is the author ofA Quantitative Approach to the Style of Jonathan Swift (Mouton, 1967), and is compiling a second corpus of eighteenth-century prose.
working on a proposal for an Educational Television series recreating Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County.
James Joice is President of a consulting and teaching firm in San Francisco.
Hans Möller, a Graduate of Copenhagen University, has been research librarian at the Royal Library, Copenhagen (1948–1955), and since 1977 a librarian at McGill University.
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Piirainen, I.T., Friedberger, M., Berry-Rogghe, G.L. et al. Book reviews. Comput Hum 14, 119–145 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02403804
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