Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 7682-7686

  Hughes, James M ^a   Foti, Nicholas J ^a   Krakauer, David C ^b,c   Rockmore, Daniel N ^a,b,d  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Big data; Complexity; Cultural evolution; Culture; Stylometry

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHOR; CONTENT ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LIFESTYLE; LITERATURE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TIME; WRITING;

BIBLIOMETRICS; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; ESTHETICS; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LITERATURE;

EID: 84861211349     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1115407109     Document Type: Article

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