Abstract:The aim of the paper is to assess the distributional non-homogeneity of texts in the usage of functional words andother linguistic units. Our empirical study is based on recommended school fiction works taken from a digital library athttp://ebiblioteka.mkp.emokykla.lt. Sets of frequent word forms, called markers, are made, and their frequency counts in blocks of 50successive sentences are calculated. The frequency counts of the markers show significant excess variability (overdispersion) withrespect to a text … Show more
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