我院刘金路博士撰写的学术论文“Distribution of sentence length of English complex sentences”在《Moderna Sprak》2024年第3期发表。

论文摘要：

In previous studies based on many languages, the distributions of sentence length fit several distribution models. Moreover, those research findings are based on a mixture of all kinds of sentences, which constitute the most complex syntactic units. How is the distribution of sentence length of English complex sentences manifested individually? To answer this question, with the aid of Altmann-Fitter software (2013), we analyzed and compared the distribution of sentence length of English complex sentences comprehensively,judging by Brown and LOB corpus, the three research findings were obtained. Firstly, the frequency distributions of sentence length of English complex sentences well follow the Extended Positive Negative Binomial distribution；Secondly, text type or genre could have a significant effect on the distribution of sentence length of English complex sentences; Thirdly, there are no any significant differences in the distributions of sentence length of complex sentences between British and American English. The above research findings suggest that human language is a probabilistic system bynature.

教师简介：

刘金路，浙江大学语言学博士，讲师，硕士生导师。研究方向为计量语言学、语料库语言学与句法-语义界面，并使用Python与R语言编程处理辅助语言研究。主持完成横向课题及浙江财经大学研究生课程思政建设课题各一项，主持浙江省哲学社会科学交叉学科基金项目一项（在研），参编文华创新学院系列教材两部。近三年，担任Linguistics Vanguard、Journal of Quantitative Linguistics与 SAGE Open等国际期刊审稿人，先后在《外国语》《中国外语》《外语教学》《江西师范大学学报》（哲学社会科学版）及Linguistics Vanguard、Moderna Sprak等国内外期刊发表学术论文20余篇。