Quantifying the Beauty of Words: A Neurocognitive Poetics Perspective

In this paper I would like to pave the ground for future studies in Computational Stylistics and (Neuro-)Cognitive Poetics by describing procedures for predicting the subjective beauty of words. A set of eight tentative word features is computed via Quantitative Narrative Analysis (QNA) and a novel...

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Main Author: Arthur M. Jacobs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00622/full