Contents

Preface
pp. ix-xii

Models and Explanation

Gabriel Altmann
Science and Linguistics
pp. 3-10

August Fenk and Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon
Menzerath's Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information
pp. 11-31

Ludek Hrebícek
Text as a Construct of Aggregations
pp. 33-39

Reinhard Köhler
Synergetic Linguistics
pp. 41-51

Anatolij A. Polikarpov
A Model of the Word Life Cycle
pp. 53-63

Process Dynamics and Semiotics

Burghard B. Rieger and Constantin Thiopoulos
A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext
pp. 67-78

Ulrich Schade and Uwe Laubenstein
Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model
pp. 79-90

Mildred L.G. Shaw and Brian R. Graines
A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities
pp. 91-138

Quantification and Measurement

R. Grotjahn and G. Altmann
Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems
pp. 141-153

Peter Schmidt
The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt
pp. 155-169

Textual Structures and Processing

E. Dermatas and G. Kokkinakis
An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition
pp. 173-182

F. Dupuis, D. Gosselin, B. Habert, S. Lafond, and M. Lemieux
Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO)
pp. 183-193

Koichi Ejiri and Adolph E. Smith
Proposal of a New `Constraint Measure' for Text
pp. 195-211

Ute Essen and Hermann Ney
Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory
pp. 213-220

Reinhard Kneser and Hermann Ney
Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling
pp. 221-226

Jan Králík
Probabilistic Scaling of Texts
pp. 227-240

M. Refice and M. Savino
Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models
pp. 241-250

Christa Womser-Hacker
Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk
pp. 251-263

Dialectology

Sheila Embleton
Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project
pp. 267-276

Hans Goebl
Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data
pp. 277-315

Phonemics and Phonetics

P.A. Rentzepopoulos, A.E. Tsopanoglou, and G.K. Kokkinakis
A Statistical Approach for Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion
pp. 319-328

Statistical Studies, Reports, Projects, and Results

Rolf Hammerl and Jadwiga Sambor
Synergetic Studies in Polish
pp. 331-359

Mark Olsen
Quantitative Linguistics and Histoire des mentalités: Gender Representation in the Trésor de la langue française, 1600-1950
pp. 361-381

Qian Feng
About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG)
pp. 383-397

Jogchum Reitsma
A Parallel Approach in Statistical Analysis of Unrestricted Corpora of Human Language
pp. 399-408

George Silnitsky
Correlational System of Verbal Features in English and German
pp. 409-420

Marek Swidzinski
Verb Patterns in the Polish Vocabulary and Texts
pp. 421-431

Notes on Contributors
pp. 433-435

Announcement: QUALICO-94
p. 436