Kateřina Pelegrinová, Gabriel Altmann
GLOTTOMETRICS | Issue 48, pp 9 – 16 (2020) |
Abstract
The study proposes a model for the rank-frequencies of individual semantic classes of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in three English novels analyzed by N. Yesypenko (2009), and compares the ranks using the Kendall-test.
Keywords
English texts, semantic classes, Menzerath’s law, Kendall’s test