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Vocabulary Statistics and Phonology: A Parallel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Gustav Herdan
Gustav Herdan*
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University of Bristol
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In the Introduction to his Anleitung zu phonologischen Beschreibungen (1935)' Trubetzkoy speaks about the methodological differences between phonetics in its physical and physiological and also, perhaps, psychological aspects, and the other part of linguistics (Sprachlehre), and then makes the following statement (here translated) :

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Language , Volume 37 , Issue 2: April-June , June 1961, pp. 247 - 255
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Copyright © 1961 Linguistic Society of America

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References

1 Noam Chomsky, Lg. 34.100 (1958).

2 Dwight L. Bolinger, Rime, assonance and morpheme analysis, Word 6.117 (1950).

3 Otto Jespersen, Philosophy of grammar (London, 1924) ; Henry Sweet, A new English grammar (Oxford, 1898).

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6 Gustav Herdan, A new derivation and interpretation of Yule's ‘characteristic’ K, Jour. of applied mathematics and physics (Zamp), Vol. 6 (1955).

7 C. B. Williams, Yule's ‘characteristic’ and the index of diversity, Nature 157.482 (1946).

8 R. Morgenthaler, Statistik des neutestamentlichen Wortschatzes (Zurich and Frankfurt a/M., 1958).

9 G. Herdan, Type-token mathematics, ch. 3 and 19 (The Hague, 1960).