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

Table 4

Evolution of 2-, 3- and 4-gram word length entropies compared with the entropies of the shuffled texts (with normalized values).

Time period	2-gram			3-gram			4-gram
	H1	Hs1	D1	H2	Hs2	D2	H3	Hs3	D3
1	0.00	0.00	0.12	0.00	0.00	0.04	0.00	0.00	0.10
2	0.52	0.53	1.00	0.52	0.53	0.85	0.51	0.53	0.88
3	0.68	0.69	0.97	0.68	0.69	0.75	0.68	0.70	0.68
4	0.75	0.76	0.90	0.74	0.76	1.00	0.74	0.76	1.00
5	0.73	0.73	0.01	0.73	0.73	0.00	0.73	0.73	0.00
6	1.00	1.00	0.00	1.00	1.00	0.08	1.00	1.00	0.07