... membership of the parts of speech within such blocks reflects the content load of the blocks, on the basis that open class parts of speech are more content- bearing than closed classparts of speech. ... content- poor, the same can hold for blocks of parts of speech. According to our first hypothe-sis, POS blocks can be categorized as content- richor content- poor, on the basis of their distributionwithin ... been‘counted’, if the Content Load is zero or more,we consider the POS block content- rich. If the Figure 1: The Content Load algorithmfunction CONTENT- LOAD( POSblock)returns ContentLoadINITIALISE -FOR- EACH-POSBLOCK(query)for...