"length of words" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe the number of letters or syllables in a word or group of words. Example: The teacher asked the students to calculate the average length of words in their essays.
Quite apart from its role in science, however, pi is also the only number that has inspired its own literary genre, "pilish", in which the length of words in a sentence is determined by pi's digits.
While information theory has been most helpful in the design of more efficient telecommunication systems, it has also motivated linguistic studies of the relative frequencies of words, the length of words, and the speed of reading.
In one demonstration of his point he compiles a list of subjects taken from E. D. Hirsch's book "Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know," and compares it with a list of the same length of words and phrases from advertising.
Corresponding to lesions of left occipito-temporal (OT) regions in acquired cases, we found a dysfunction of this region in our developmental cases who failed to exhibit responsiveness of left OT regions to the length of words and pseudowords.
Corresponding to lesions of left occipito-temporal (OT) regions in acquired cases, we found a dysfunction of this region in our developmental cases who failed to exhibit any responsiveness of left OT regions to the length of words and pseudowords.
The present finding that dyslexic readers failed to exhibit modulation of left OT activation in response to the length of words and pseudowords corresponds to previous findings showing that dyslexic readers failed to exhibit the increased left OT activation of nonimpaired readers to sublexical processing required by pseudohomophones, pseudowords, or low-frequency words [37], [38], [44], [45].
The RIL had a median length of 608 words [350 words, 25th percentile; 1005 words, 75th percentile], corresponding to two pages.
Let D be the sum of lengths of words (uin W) that appear in the factors of (g_1).
Let D be the sum of lengths of words (win W) that appear in the factors of (g_1).
The PSC consists of 144 German sentences with a mean length of 7.9 words (overall, 1,183 words).
We normalized edit distance by dividing it by the length (number of words) of the longer path, so that it takes values in the range [0,1].
