A01_RICH4603_04_SE_A01.QXD

(Chris Devlin) #1

Type-Token Ratio n
another term forlexical density


typology n
the classification of languages into types. For example, languages may be
classified according to whether or not they are tone languages (seetone^1 )
or according to their most typical syntactic structures, e.g. whether
they are SVO languages(Subject – Verb – Object languages) like English or
SOV languages(Subject – Object – Verb languages) like Japanese.


typology
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