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... interesting way to estimate the entropy or redundancy in prose is to use the " cloze ” procedure devised by Wilson L. Taylor , which consists of deleting every nth word in a passage and asking the reader to supply the missing words.39 ...
... interesting way to estimate the entropy or redundancy in prose is to use the " cloze ” procedure devised by Wilson L. Taylor , which consists of deleting every nth word in a passage and asking the reader to supply the missing words.39 ...
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... interesting book . It was interesting to see how he had the main character work in a bookstore - a small bookstore in the city of London and as - as he worked there as a clerk , the different people who came in to buy books were the ...
... interesting book . It was interesting to see how he had the main character work in a bookstore - a small bookstore in the city of London and as - as he worked there as a clerk , the different people who came in to buy books were the ...
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... interesting examples , see Franklyn S. Haiman , ed . , Freedom of Speech : Issues and Cases ( New York : Random House , Inc. , 1965 ) . 34 George A. Miller and Jennifer Selfridge , " Verbal Context and the Recall of Meaningful Material ...
... interesting examples , see Franklyn S. Haiman , ed . , Freedom of Speech : Issues and Cases ( New York : Random House , Inc. , 1965 ) . 34 George A. Miller and Jennifer Selfridge , " Verbal Context and the Recall of Meaningful Material ...
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