Nonsemantic word graphs of texts spanning ∼ 4500 years, including pre-literate Amerindian oral narratives.

ABSTRACT: Non-semantic word graphs obtained from oral reports are useful to describe cognitive decline in psychiatric conditions such as Schizophrenia, as well as education-related gains in discourse structure during typical development. Here we provide non-semantic word graph attributes of texts spanning approximately 4500 years of history, and pre-literate Amerindian oral narratives. The dataset assessed comprises 707 literary texts representative of 9 different Afro-Eurasian traditions (Syro-Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Hinduist, Persian, Judeo-Christian, Greek-Roman, Medieval, Modern and Contemporary), and Amerindian narratives (N = 39) obtained from a single ethnic group from South America (Kalapalo, N = 18), or from a mixed ethnic group from South, Central and North America (non-Kalap

SUBMITTER: Mota NB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8379624 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature