‘Invisible’ words like ‘a’, ‘the’ and ‘it’ are found in a similar pattern across narratives
Small and ‘invisible’ words like ‘a’, ‘the’ and ‘it’ appear in a similar pattern across most narratives ranging from Dickens to Spielberg – forming a blueprint for storytelling, a study has found. Researchers from Lancaster University and the University of Texas recorded 39,000 uses of these words in fictional and non-fictional text from novels to … Read more