You said you’d stand by me in the middle of Chapter Three
Analyses of classic authors’ works provide a way to “linguistically fingerprint” them, researchers say.
The relationship between the number of words an author uses only once and the length of a work forms an identifier for them, they argue.
Analyses of works by Herman Melville, Thomas Hardy, and DH Lawrence showed these “unique word” charts are specific to each author.
Researchers also suggest each author pulls their works from a hypothetical “meta book”. One description of this concept might be a framework for the way an author uses language. It is from this framework that all their works are ultimately derived.
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