Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics

Preface. Models and Explanation. 1. Science and Linguistics; G. Altmann. 2. Menzerath's Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information; A. Fenk, G. Fenk-Oczlon. 3. Text as a Construct of Aggregations; L. Hrebícek. 4. Synergetic Linguistics; R. Köhler. 5. A Model of the Word Life Cycle; A.A. Polikarpov. Process Dynamics and Semiotics. 6. A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext; B.B. Rieger, C. Thiopoulos. 7. Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model; U. Schade, U. Laubenstein. 8. A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities; M.L.G. Shaw, B.R. Gaines. Quantification and Measurement. 9. Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems; R. Grotjahn, G. Altmann. 10. The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt; P. Schmitt. Textual Structures and Processing. 11. An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition; E. Dermatas, G. Kokkinakis. 12. Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO); F. Dupuis, D. Gosselin, B. Habert, S. Lafond, M. Lemieux. 13. Proposal of a new 'Constraint Measure' for Text; K. Ejiri, A.E. Smith. 14. Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory; U. Essen, H. Ney. 15. Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling; R. Kneser, H. Ney. 16. Probabilistic Scaling of Texts; J. Králík.17. Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models; M. Refice, M. Savino. 18. Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk; C. Womser-hacker. Dialectology. 19. Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project; S. Embleton. 20. Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data; H. Goebl. Phonemics and Phonetics. 21. A Statistical Approach for Phoneme--to--Grapheme Conversion; P.A. Rentzepopoulos, A.E. Tsopanoglou, G.K. Kokkinakis. Statistical Studies, Reports, Projects, and Results. 22. Synergetic Studies in Polish; R. Hammerl, J. Sambor. 23. Quantitative Linguistics and Histoire des mentalités: Gender Representation in the Trésor de la langue française, 1600-1950; M. Olsen. 24. About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG); Qian Feng. 25. A Parallel Approach in Statistical Analysis of Unrestricted Corpora of Human Language; J. Reitsma. 26. Correlation System of Verbal Features in English and German; G. Silnitsky. 27. Verb Patterns in the Polish Vocabulary and Texts; M. Świdziński. Announcement: QUALICO 94.