Hazard functions in seven major Western languages (IMAGE)

The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences

Hazard functions in seven major Western languages

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Hazard functions represent the probability of using a punctuation mark as a function of the length of the sequence without these marks. In terms of punctuation, the most ‘cross-linguistic’ is German (green chart).

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Source: IFJ PAN

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