Item Detail
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29173
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5
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English
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Book of Mormon 'Wordprints' Reexamined
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Sunstone
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March-April 1981
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6
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2
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Salt Lake City, UT
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Sunstone Education Foundation
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15-21
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In a recent article appearing in BYU Studies, Wayne Larsen, Alvin Rencher, and Tim Layton, specialists in statistics at Brigham Young University, used some highly sophisticated, computerized statistical techniques to examine wordprints of authors in the Book of Mormon. The term "wordprint" was coined by the Larsen group to represent patterns of word usage which authors unconsciously repeat in their writings or speeches- sentence length or frequency of certain common words, for example. [From the text]