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How Does Word Length Evolve in Written Chinese?

We demonstrate a substantial evidence that the word length can be an essential lexical structural feature for word evolution in written Chinese. The data used in this study are diachronic Chinese short narrative texts with a time span of over 2000-years. We show that the increase of word length is a...

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Autores principales: Chen, Heng, Liang, Junying, Liu, Haitao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4575206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26384237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138567