When a text is translated does the complexity of its vocabulary change? Translations and target readerships.
In linguistic studies, the academic level of the vocabulary in a text can be described in terms of statistical physics by using a "temperature" concept related to the text's word-frequency distribution. We propose a "comparative thermo-linguistic" technique to analyze the vo...
Main Authors: | Hênio Henrique Aragão Rêgo, Lidia A Braunstein, Gregorio D'Agostino, H Eugene Stanley, Sasuke Miyazima |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2014-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110213 |
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