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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Foreword
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 The universe of discourse
1.2 Forms of repetitions
1.3 Prolegomena for a future text theory
2 Shapeless Repetition
2.1 Phonic effects
2.2 Two variables
2.2.1 The activity index
2.2.2 Excursus
2.2.3 Comparing activity indices
2.3 Global indicators
2.3.1 Entropy
2.3.2 Comparison of two entropy values
2.3.3 The repeat rate
2.3.4 Moments of distributions
2.3.4.1 Comparison of two means
2.3.4.2 Comparing two distributions
2.4 Modelling using probability distributions
2.5 Some text laws
2.5.1 The Zipf-Mandelbrot Law
2.5.2 The Simon-Herdan Model
2.5.3 Hřebíček’s Reference Law
2.5.4 Type-Token Models
2.5.5 Perspectives
3 Positional repetition
3.1 The rhyme in “Erlkönig”
3.2 Open rhymes
3.3 The gradual climax
3.3.1 The linear climax
3.3.2 Reduced climax
3.3.3 The exponential climax
3.4 Other positional repetitions
4 Associative repetition
4.1 Associative repetition of two words
4.1.1 Short texts
4.1.2 Long texts
4.2 Presentation
4.3 The minimal (acyclic) graph
4.4 Vistas
5 Iterative repetition
5.1 Binary sequences
5.2 Large samples
5.3 Comparison of runs in two texts
5.4 Runs of more than two kinds of elements
6 Aggregative repetition
6.1 Random distances: binary data
6.2 Models of aggregation trends
6.3 Brainerd’s Markov-chain model
6.4 Non-binary data
6.5 Similarity aggregation
6.6 Vistas
7 Repetition in blocks
7.1 The Frumkina law
7.2 Testing the Frumkina law
7.3 Vistas
8 Parallel repetitions
8.1 Cochran’s Q-test
8.2 Analysis of variance
8.3 The chi-square test
9 Cyclic repetition
9.1 Fourier analysis
10 Summary
References
Index
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