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15 décembre 2021
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Christof Schöch, « Do Sentences in Novels Get Shorter over the Course of the Nineteenth Century? », The Dragonfly's Gaze, ID : 10.58079/nwfg
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Introduction The topic of this post is the evolution of average sentence length in literary texts and can be understood as a sequel, after a long time, to a post about sentence length in French literature, only this time the focus is on English-language fiction (with some forays into multiple European languages) and on a somewhat different time-frame (with a focus on the time period ca. 1840-1920). The question: do sentences in novels gets shorter over the course of the nineteenth cent...