Computerized systems that provide feedback on the comprehensibility of technical prose should be based on what is known scientifically about what makes prose difficult to understand. The experimental psycholinguistics literature was surveyed, and a set of rules for comprehensible technical prose was derived. The basic criteria for selection of the literature and the rules was that the rules sho...

In this paper we build on earlier observations and theory regarding word length frequency and sequential distribution to develop a mathematical characterization of some of the language features distinguishing isometrically lineated text from unlineated text, in other words the features distinguishing isometrical verse from prose. It is shown that the frequency of Qn of n syllables making comple...