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Application of the Theory of Stability of Alphabetic Distributions to a Problem of Language Mixture

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Among the linguistic studies which entail quantitative thinking and could, therefore, profit by the use of numerical analysis, are those on languages in contact and language mixture.

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    Gustav Herdan M. Sc., Ph. D., LL. D.

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Herdan, G. (1966). Application of the Theory of Stability of Alphabetic Distributions to a Problem of Language Mixture. In: The Advanced Theory of Language as Choice and Chance. Kommunikation und Kybernetik in Einzeldarstellungen, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-88388-0_4

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