Word length in Old Icelandic songs and prose texts*
Karl‐Heinz Best · Journal of Quantitative Linguistics · 1996
In this study, word length distributions are investigated in Old Icelandic songs and prose texts. Although Old Icelandic is separated from the other languages studied so far within the framework of the Göttingen word length project, the same model, viz. the hyper‐Poisson distribution, can successfully be fitted to the data.