TY - JOUR AU - Malvina Marinashvili PY - 2020/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - AVERAGE WORD LENGTH AND TEXT REDUNDANCY VARIABILITY: FRENCH TEXTS CASE STUDY JF - Scientific Journal of Polonia University JA - SJPU VL - 38 IS - 1-2 SE - Philological Sciences DO - 10.23856/3849 UR - http://pnap.ap.edu.pl/index.php/pnap/article/view/469 AB - The redundancy and average word length correlation in French texts have been researched. This correlation has been evaluated on the basis of analysis of entropy, redundancy and average word length for literary, scientific, and publicistic texts. It has been revealed that the variability of text redundancy correlates well with the variability of average word length, if calculating the average word length of an individual text we exclude the length of words belonging to the exponential tail of entropy curve. In this regard it is proposed to distinguish between two average word lengths of text: the average length of a word belonging to the exponentially decaying tail of entropy and the average length of a word not belonging to the exponential tail of entropy. ER -