Frequency distributions of punctuation marks in English

• DOI: 10.1017/s0266078418000512
• Publication Date: 2018-12-17T13:04:12Z
• Authors: Kun Sun; Rong Wang
• Keywords: Punctuation; Orthography; Intonation; CLARITY; Written language; Expression (computer science)

The analysis of punctuation in philology is mainly carried out with a view to better understand the meaning literature concerned. Punctuation generally believed play role ‘assisting written language indicating those elements speech that cannot be conveniently set down on paper: chiefly pause, pitch and stress speech’ (Markwardt, 1942: 156). Most us often ignore importance writing systems tend believe only depends tradition personal styles writers. In fact, marks may contribute significantly clarity expression. Many linguists associate intonation, but truth more complex than – affect orthography, morphology, syntactic relations, semantic information, can even influence textual structure.