Morpheme Length Distribution in Lakota
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چکیده
In this article it will be shown that morpheme length in Lakota obeys a special multimodal distribution resulting from a difference equation of second order. This is due to the particular structure of Lakota syllables, which provide the building blocks for morphemes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of Quantitative Linguistics
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005