Abstract
Abstract Within a project on quantitative linguistics, which deals with the problem of proving regularities in various text entities, sixty English press texts were analyzed to display the distribution of word length frequency. In order to get a homogeneous text sample, all texts were taken from the daily newspaper The Guardian and the weekly magazine The Economist. Although there has been research into German and English press texts, the question this study concentrates on is if the same mathematical model applies to the distribution of word length in daily and weekly English press texts alike and if there is a difference between them at all. As is shown in the study, for 57 of the 60 texts analyzed, the mixed Poisson distribution worked out to be the main application (Riedemann, 1994). In spite of this result there were 3 texts which could only be applied by the Hirata‐Poisson distribution. Surprisingly, this model could mainly be proven for French and Japanese texts. One assumption to deal with this result is that in these texts both the Germanic and the Romance influence came through. As a matter of saving space only 20 of the 60 texts analysed are displayed below.
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