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The study of Chaucer's vocabulary

The study of Chaucer's vocabulary Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 12, pp. 61-69 (1978). 0010-4817/78/010061-09502.00/0 Pergamon Press. Printed in the U.S.A. Copyright 9 1978 Pergamon Press, Inc. WALTER S. PHELAN Language is a cosmos; it encircles, contains, When the printing press took a manuscript and distributed it uniformly and at large among the and orders a totality of experience for a nation or group (the macrocosmic function) or for an indi- people, the effects on the growth of the mac- vidual (the microcosmic). The logosphere is the rocosmic vocabulary were astounding, as the globe inhabited by each speaker of a given lan- statistical studies of Finckenstaedt have shown? guage. 1 Aside from modern sound recording, a On the other hand, the computer, as I am using it logosphere can be found and studied primarily, in in this project, takes one manuscript or text and continuous terms, in written texts which attempt loosens the connections between the words to portray any human totality. The choice and temporarily so that the words that were in a fixed arrangement of words in such a text have always form, the solid state which we hope the author been analyzed in both a serial and an intuitive intended, are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Language Resources and Evaluation Springer Journals

The study of Chaucer's vocabulary

Phelan, Walter
Language Resources and Evaluation , Volume 12 (2) – Apr 4, 2006
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Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Computer Science, general; Linguistics, general; Language and Literature
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Computers and the Humanities, Vol. 12, pp. 61-69 (1978). 0010-4817/78/010061-09502.00/0 Pergamon Press. Printed in the U.S.A. Copyright 9 1978 Pergamon Press, Inc. WALTER S. PHELAN Language is a cosmos; it encircles, contains, When the printing press took a manuscript and distributed it uniformly and at large among the and orders a totality of experience for a nation or group (the macrocosmic function) or for an indi- people, the effects on the growth of the mac- vidual (the microcosmic). The logosphere is the rocosmic vocabulary were astounding, as the globe inhabited by each speaker of a given lan- statistical studies of Finckenstaedt have shown? guage. 1 Aside from modern sound recording, a On the other hand, the computer, as I am using it logosphere can be found and studied primarily, in in this project, takes one manuscript or text and continuous terms, in written texts which attempt loosens the connections between the words to portray any human totality. The choice and temporarily so that the words that were in a fixed arrangement of words in such a text have always form, the solid state which we hope the author been analyzed in both a serial and an intuitive intended, are

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