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About this paper
Iwona Grabska-Gradzińska, Andrzej Kulig, Jarosław Kwapień, Paweł Oświęcimka, Stanisław Drożdż
Researchers investigated the fractal characteristics of sentence length sequences in 30 English literary texts using Multifractal Detrended Fluctuation Analysis (MFDFA) and Wavelet Transform Modulus Maxima (WTMM). The study revealed that true multifractality is not a universal feature of these texts, appearing in only a few works, while the majority exhibited monofractal or non-fractal properties in their sentence length organization.
Key insights
- Multifractality in sentence length sequences is not a universal characteristic across all literary texts, suggesting varying degrees and types of complexity in natural language structure.
- The presence or absence of multifractality in sentence lengths may serve as a subtle quantitative stylistic indicator, though it can vary even within an author's different works.
- Advanced statistical physics methods, such as MFDFA and WTMM, provide a powerful framework for a nuanced understanding of linguistic complexity beyond simple linear correlation studies.
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