Długość przeciętnego polskiego wyrazu w tekstach pisanych w świetle analizy korpusowej
Average length Polish word

Summary/Abstract: Considering the fact that words vary in length within a language and between different languages the author has conducted the research, inspired by Carver’s model of a standard-length word, to answer the question: What is the average length of a Polish word? To achieve that goal, ninety samples, a 1000-words-long each, drawn from the National Corpora of Polish Language have been examined. The texts belonged to different genres and had different publication channel. The average length of a Polish word was established to be 6 characters. Using that value, the number of average words (AV) has been calculated for each analyzed sample. The number of actual words has been juxtaposed with the number of AV. The procedure made possible to reject the null hypothesis and validate the new unit of text measurement. In the last part of the article a number of possible uses of the new concept have been enumerated.

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