6 papers
Glottochronology and problems of protolanguage reconstruction
Kromer Victor
A method of languages genealogical trees construction is proposed.
Historical Dynamics of Lexical System as Random Walk Process
Victor Kromer
It is offered to consider word meanings changes in diachrony as semicontinuous random walk with reflecting and swallowing screens. The basic characteristics of word life cycle are…
Two-parameter Model of Word Length "Language - Genre"
Victor Kromer
A two-parameter model of word length measured by the number of syllables comprising it is proposed. The first parameter is dependent on language type, the second one - on text genr…
Mathematical Model of Word Length on the Basis of the Cebanov-Fucks Distribution with Uniform Parameter Distribution
Victor Kromer
The data on 13 typologically different languages have been processed using a two-parameter word length model, based on 1-displaced uniform Poisson distribution. Statistical depende…
Parameter-free Model of Rank Polysemantic Distribution
Victor Kromer
A model of rank polysemantic distribution with a minimal number of fitting parameters is offered. In an ideal case a parameter-free description of the dependence on the basis of on…
An Usage Measure Based on Psychophysical Relations
V. Kromer
A new word usage measure is proposed. It is based on psychophysical relations and allows to reveal words by its degree of "importance" for making basic dictionaries of sublanguages…