Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years

<table class="fixed-width table-group" id="tab3"><tr><td><table class="table"><colgroup><col style="width:4.41em"/><col style="width:3.76em"/><col style="width:3.80em"/><col style="width:3.82em"/><col style="width:3.73em"/><col style="width:3.61em"/><col style="width:3.62em"/></colgroup><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Type</td><td class="align_center" colspan="6">Time periods</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_center">1</td><td class="align_center">2</td><td class="align_center">3</td><td class="align_center">4</td><td class="align_center">5</td><td class="align_center">6</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="7"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">SMWL</td><td class="align_center">1.4754</td><td class="align_center">1.6289</td><td class="align_center">1.6808</td><td class="align_center">1.7186</td><td class="align_center">1.7188</td><td class="align_center">1.8139</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">DMWL</td><td class="align_center">1.1688</td><td class="align_center">1.2909</td><td class="align_center">1.3604</td><td class="align_center">1.3784</td><td class="align_center">1.3531</td><td class="align_center">1.4163</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="7"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Evolution of mean word length in written Chinese narrative texts across 2000 years (adapted from [<a href="/journals/complexity/2018/9362468/#B9" target="_blank">27</a>]).</div>

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Table 3: Quantifying Evolution of Short and Long-Range Correlations in Chinese Narrative Texts across 2000 Years 