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Stylometry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tuesday December 30 th , 2014  at  1:21 PM Wikipedia - Recent Changes [En] 1 Share Stylometry  is the application of  the study of linguistic style , usually to written language, but it has successfully been applied to music [ 1 ]  and to fine-art paintings [ 2 ]  as well. Stylometry is often used to attribute  authorship  to  anonymous  or disputed documents. It has legal as well as academic and literary applications, ranging from the question of the  authorship of Shakespeare's works  to  forensic linguistics . History [ edit ] Stylometry grew out of earlier techniques of analyzing texts for evidence of authenticity, authorial identity, and other questions. An early example is  Lorenzo Valla 's 1439 proof that the  Donation of Constantine  was a  forgery , an argument based partly on a comparison of the  Latin  with that used in authentic 4th Century documents. The modern practice of