Jiří Milička
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jiří Milička is involved.
2025 Simple stochastic processes behind Menzerath’s Law Mathematical Modelling in Linguistics and Text Analysis: Theory and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Sheila Embleton, Jan Mačutek and Aris Xanthos (eds.), pp. 43–59 | Chapter
This paper revisits Menzerath’s Law, also known as the Menzerath-Altmann Law, which models a relationship between the length of a linguistic construct and the average length of its constituents. Recent findings indicate that simple stochastic processes can display Menzerathian behaviour, though… read more
2024 Chapter 10. Query a corpus in near-natural language: A human-friendly corpus query language not only for linguists Crossing Boundaries through Corpora: Innovative corpus approaches within and beyond linguistics, Buschfeld, Sarah, Patricia Ronan, Theresa Neumaier, Andreas Weilinghoff and Lisa Westermayer (eds.), pp. 248–262 | Chapter
This paper addresses the pressing issue of accessibility of corpora to users who are not able or willing to learn a formal query language. It introduces a working online automatic translator from a near-natural language into the Corpus Query Language (CQL), as used in SketchEngine, Czech… read more
2021 The expression of time in English and Czech children’s literature: A contrastive phraseological perspective Time in Languages, Languages in Time, Čermáková, Anna, Thomas Egan, Hilde Hasselgård and Sylvi Rørvik (eds.), pp. 283–304 | Chapter
This chapter explores the expression of the concept of time in children’s narrative fiction cross-linguistically, comparing Czech and English. Specifically, it analyses multi-word units and patterns which the respective languages employ when referring to time. The new Engrammer software was… read more
2021 A method for the comparison of general sequences via type-token ratio Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros (eds.), pp. 37–54 | Chapter
This article proposes a new method for analyzing and comparing general linear sequences with the minimum prior knowledge on the sequences needed. Sequence analysis is a broad problem studied by various fields from sociology and computer security to linguistics or biology. The method presented… read more
2021 Phonological properties as predictors of text success Language and Text: Data, models, information and applications, Pawłowski, Adam, Jan Mačutek, Sheila Embleton and George Mikros (eds.), pp. 177–194 | Chapter
In this study, the relation of phoneme structure and success rate of Czech texts is investigated. The study is based upon two phenomena: (1) the beauty-in-averageness effect and (2) the euphony principle. The main objective is to examine whether one or the other prevails in the perception of… read more
2021 Modelling crosslinguistic n‑gram correspondence in typologically different languages Languages in Contrast 21:2, pp. 217–249 | Article
N‑gram analysis (popularized e.g. by Biber et al., 1999) has become a popular method for the identification of recurrent language patterns. Although the extraction of n‑grams from a corpus may seem straightforward, it proves to be very challenging when applied cross-linguistically (cf. e.g.… read more
2017 The effect of iconicity flash blindness: An empirical study Dimensions of Iconicity, Zirker, Angelika, Matthias Bauer, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg (eds.), pp. 3–14 | Chapter
In our experiment, the Saussurean postulate of arbitrariness has been empirically tested in order to see whether it can be applied to all words to the same extent. Three hundred participants were asked to match Czech words with their Hindi translations. One set of words was randomly chosen from a… read more