James M Stratton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1720121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Stratton |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Stratton |
| SIGNATURE | STRATTON J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7255-5545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Issues of Faithfulness and Sampling in Historical Corpora
Electronically available corpora have inevitably enhanced access to historical texts, but building historical corpora can often, unintentionally, distort historical language. This paper discusses how issues of faithfulness and sampling can impact the reliability of a historical corpus-based analysis, with recommendations provided for both corpus users and corpus builders. First, by comparing the Beowulf manuscript with the language found in a his…
The effects of production training on speech perception in L2 learners of German
Where did wer go? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English
The present study uses variationist quantitative methods to examine the evolution of the semantic field of third-person male adult noun referents from Old English to Middle English, covering a time depth of approximately six hundred years. Results show a shift from the favored variant wer in Old English to man in Middle English, with the diachronic change in frequency following a prototypical s-shaped distribution. Although the replacement seems …
Old English intensifiers
While many studies have employed variationist methods to examine longitudinal changes in the English intensifier system, to date, no variationist studies have tackled the intensifier system of Old English. By providing a critical view of this system at an earlier stage in the history of the English language, the present study adds to the long tradition of scholarship on intensifiers while providing new insight into their diachronic development. D…
Tapping into German Adjective Variation
Following the Labovian paradigm, the present study uses variationist quantitative methods to examine the linguistic and social factors influencing adjective choices in German. By focusing on adjectives of positive evaluation (such as cool ‘cool’, toll / geil ‘great’), an analysis of over 3,000 tokens reveals that the choice of using one adjective over a competing counterpart is structured systematically. This choice is heavily constrained by the …
A Variationist Sociolinguistic Analysis of Intensifiers in Oslo Norwegian
The present study uses variationist sociolinguistic methods to examine the intensifier system in Oslo Norwegian. Results indicate that both linguistic and social factors influence intensifier use. Predicative adjectives were intensified more frequently than attributive adjectives, women used intensifiers more frequently than men, and younger speakers had higher intensification rates than older speakers. Apparent time analyses also reveal a change…
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning
Although English and German are both Germanic languages, due to various historical changes, many of their cognates are no longer easily recognizable. This study examined whether knowledge of language history can be beneficial to learners when learning English–German cognates. Thirty‐five English‐speaking second language (L2) learners of 3rd‐semester German at an American university were assigned to either an intentional or incidental learning con…
‘That's proper cool’
Intensifying adverbs are devices which scale a quality up, down, or somewhere between the two (Bolinger 1972: 17). To intensify the adjective cool , speakers of British English have a variety of functionally equivalent intensifiers at their disposal. They can use very , really , so , dead , bloody , right and well , among many others. A seemingly recent arrival to the British intensifier system is proper , as in that was proper cool . Believed to…
Adjective Intensifiers in German
While the study of English intensifiers has been a topic of much empirical discussion (Bolinger 1972, Paradis 1997, Ito & Tagliamonte 2003, Xiao & Tao 2007, Fuchs 2017), intensification in the German language is underexplored. The present study operationalizes variationist methods to comprehensively examine the syntactic intensification of adjectives in German by investigating how adjective intensifiers rank empirically in terms of frequency and …
A diachronic analysis of the adjective intensifier well from Early Modern English to Present Day English
While the use of well as an intensifier of most adjectives had supposedly died out by Early Modern English (Fettig 1934: 186, Mustanoja 1960: 327, Stenström 2000: 188, Ito and Taglimonte 2003: 278), no studies have empirically examined its frequency diachronically. The present study traces its use from Early Modern English (1560) to Present Day English, (2014) using five speech-related corpora in addition to various dialectal sources and audio/vi…
The Use of the Adjective Intensifier well in British English
In some present-day varieties of British English the adverbial well can function as an adjective intensifier, as in utterances such as it’s well good and it’s well weird. The present study explores the use of this adjective intensifier in the popular British TV show The Inbetweeners in an attempt to shed light on its contemporary use within the last 20 years and provide a more contemporary discussion of its collocational and syntactic distributio…
The Use of the Adjective Intensifier well in British English
In some present-day varieties of British English the adverbial well can function as an adjective intensifier, as in utterances such as it’s well good and it’s well weird. The present study explores the use of this adjective intensifier in the popular British TV show The Inbetweeners in an attempt to shed light on its contemporary use within the last 20 years and provide a more contemporary discussion of its collocational and syntactic distributio…
The Use of the Adjective Intensifier well in British English
In some present-day varieties of British English the adverbial well can function as an adjective intensifier, as in utterances such as it’s well good and it’s well weird. The present study explores the use of this adjective intensifier in the popular British TV show The Inbetweeners in an attempt to shed light on its contemporary use within the last 20 years and provide a more contemporary discussion of its collocational and syntactic distributio…
Adjective Intensifiers in German
While the study of English intensifiers has been a topic of much empirical discussion (Bolinger 1972, Paradis 1997, Ito & Tagliamonte 2003, Xiao & Tao 2007, Fuchs 2017), intensification in the German language is underexplored. The present study operationalizes variationist methods to comprehensively examine the syntactic intensification of adjectives in German by investigating how adjective intensifiers rank empirically in terms of frequency and …
A diachronic analysis of the adjective intensifier well from Early Modern English to Present Day English
While the use of well as an intensifier of most adjectives had supposedly died out by Early Modern English (Fettig 1934: 186, Mustanoja 1960: 327, Stenström 2000: 188, Ito and Taglimonte 2003: 278), no studies have empirically examined its frequency diachronically. The present study traces its use from Early Modern English (1560) to Present Day English, (2014) using five speech-related corpora in addition to various dialectal sources and audio/vi…
‘That's proper cool’
Intensifying adverbs are devices which scale a quality up, down, or somewhere between the two (Bolinger 1972: 17). To intensify the adjective cool , speakers of British English have a variety of functionally equivalent intensifiers at their disposal. They can use very , really , so , dead , bloody , right and well , among many others. A seemingly recent arrival to the British intensifier system is proper , as in that was proper cool . Believed to…
Old English intensifiers
While many studies have employed variationist methods to examine longitudinal changes in the English intensifier system, to date, no variationist studies have tackled the intensifier system of Old English. By providing a critical view of this system at an earlier stage in the history of the English language, the present study adds to the long tradition of scholarship on intensifiers while providing new insight into their diachronic development. D…
Tapping into German Adjective Variation
Following the Labovian paradigm, the present study uses variationist quantitative methods to examine the linguistic and social factors influencing adjective choices in German. By focusing on adjectives of positive evaluation (such as cool ‘cool’, toll / geil ‘great’), an analysis of over 3,000 tokens reveals that the choice of using one adjective over a competing counterpart is structured systematically. This choice is heavily constrained by the …
A Variationist Sociolinguistic Analysis of Intensifiers in Oslo Norwegian
The present study uses variationist sociolinguistic methods to examine the intensifier system in Oslo Norwegian. Results indicate that both linguistic and social factors influence intensifier use. Predicative adjectives were intensified more frequently than attributive adjectives, women used intensifiers more frequently than men, and younger speakers had higher intensification rates than older speakers. Apparent time analyses also reveal a change…
Intentional and Incidental Vocabulary Learning
Although English and German are both Germanic languages, due to various historical changes, many of their cognates are no longer easily recognizable. This study examined whether knowledge of language history can be beneficial to learners when learning English–German cognates. Thirty‐five English‐speaking second language (L2) learners of 3rd‐semester German at an American university were assigned to either an intentional or incidental learning con…
Where did wer go? Lexical variation and change in third-person male adult noun referents in Old and Middle English
The present study uses variationist quantitative methods to examine the evolution of the semantic field of third-person male adult noun referents from Old English to Middle English, covering a time depth of approximately six hundred years. Results show a shift from the favored variant wer in Old English to man in Middle English, with the diachronic change in frequency following a prototypical s-shaped distribution. Although the replacement seems …
The effects of production training on speech perception in L2 learners of German
Issues of Faithfulness and Sampling in Historical Corpora
Electronically available corpora have inevitably enhanced access to historical texts, but building historical corpora can often, unintentionally, distort historical language. This paper discusses how issues of faithfulness and sampling can impact the reliability of a historical corpus-based analysis, with recommendations provided for both corpus users and corpus builders. First, by comparing the Beowulf manuscript with the language found in a his…
Linguistics (10 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Noun (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Adjective (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · German (5 works) · History (4 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (4 works)