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Reviews HENRY KUCERA and GEORGE K . MONROE : A Comparative Quantitative Pho­ nology of Russian, Czech and German (American Elsevier Publ., Ne w York , 1968) . 113 pp. , tables, $12 . Quantitative-phonology, as defined by the authors in the book under review, is the study of the occurrence of the phonemes of a language in normal text; the concepts and methods used in this research come mainly from statistics and com­ munication theory. As far as the dynamic aspect of language production is con­ cerned, the model chosen is a stochastic device (a Markov source, basically a finite state automaton with assorted optional sophistications). Comparative studies in this field have to do with several languages, and the conclusions arrived at tell us something about the degree of similarity between the languages involved with respect to organization of the phonemic systems, structure of the syllables, sequential constraints, and efficiency of the code. Th e authors depart from previous approaches to statistical linguistics in a number of ways. Thus, phoneme count is preferred to grapheme count (that is, speech sounds are substituted for letters in establishing the samples: the corpora consisted of 100,000 phonemes each for Czech, Russian and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Taylor & Francis

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HENRY KUCERA and GEORGE K . MONROE : A Comparative Quantitative Pho­ nology of Russian, Czech and German (American Elsevier Publ., Ne w York , 1968) . 113 pp. , tables, $12 . Quantitative-phonology, as defined by the authors in the book under review, is the study of the occurrence of the phonemes of a language in normal text; the concepts and methods used in this research come mainly from statistics and com­ munication theory. As far as the dynamic aspect of language production is...
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Taylor & Francis
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1949-0763
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10.1080/03740463.1968.10416027
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HENRY KUCERA and GEORGE K . MONROE : A Comparative Quantitative Pho­ nology of Russian, Czech and German (American Elsevier Publ., Ne w York , 1968) . 113 pp. , tables, $12 . Quantitative-phonology, as defined by the authors in the book under review, is the study of the occurrence of the phonemes of a language in normal text; the concepts and methods used in this research come mainly from statistics and com­ munication theory. As far as the dynamic aspect of language production is con­ cerned, the model chosen is a stochastic device (a Markov source, basically a finite state automaton with assorted optional sophistications). Comparative studies in this field have to do with several languages, and the conclusions arrived at tell us something about the degree of similarity between the languages involved with respect to organization of the phonemic systems, structure of the syllables, sequential constraints, and efficiency of the code. Th e authors depart from previous approaches to statistical linguistics in a number of ways. Thus, phoneme count is preferred to grapheme count (that is, speech sounds are substituted for letters in establishing the samples: the corpora consisted of 100,000 phonemes each for Czech, Russian and

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Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International – Taylor & Francis

Published: Jul 1, 1968

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