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Properties
The Properties form shows information about the concordance which is currently loaded, including the number of lines, words, characters, and sentences in the source text, the type-token ratio of the text, and the average number of words per sentence.
To show the Properties form, click on the Properties button on the toolbar or on the button labelled 'Tokens' in the Status Bar, or choose Properties from the View Menu or a pop-up menu.
Types and Tokens
Types are word-forms and tokens are occurrences of word-forms. So, for example, in the sentence 'The cat sat on the mat', there are two tokens of the type 'the' and one token each of the types 'cat', 'sat', 'on', and 'mat'.
The ratio of types to tokens is a measure often used in quantitative stylistic analysis.
The Properties form shows figures for types, tokens, and the type-token ratio for the concordance as it was when loaded, and also as it currently is. If you have deleted words from the headword list, the figures will differ.