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This is a really nice piece of work, congratulations on it.

I had done some similar word length distribution analysis on the Bio section ('cause also a single dialect and scribe) that I never wrote up for the forum. It looked at the N-th-but-not-last and last words on lines, although I didn't get around to doing chi^2 values. Because the length distributions are long-tailed to the right, I used the mode rather than the mean for the "average" length -- summary of the results was:

Types: mode at L=5 for N <= 8 and last word on line, at L = 4 for N = 9 & 10 (relatively few lines have more than 11 words)

Tokens: for N = 1 modes at L = 3 and L = 5; for N = 2 to 4 mode at L = 5; for N = 5 to 10 mode at L = 4; last word on line mode at L = 3

Karl