Gilbert Youmans
Biographic Data
| ID | 732251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gilbert Youmans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gilbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Youmans |
| SIGNATURE | YOUMANS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Gilbert Youmans, Peter Pfeifer, M. Paul Lewis, and Hope C. Dawson [Correction] Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. Fractal dimensions of discourse January 4…
A New Tool for Discourse Analysis: The Vocabulary-Management Profile
A computer is used to count the number of new vocabulary words introduced into a text over a moving interval thirty-five words long. The number of new words in each successive interval is plotted at the midpoint of the interval, generating a curve called the Vocabulary-Management Profile (VMP). Analysis of VMPs for passages from James Joyce and George Orwell illustrates that clearcut peaks and valleys on VMPs correlate closely with constituent bo…
Any More on Anymore: Evidence from a Missouri Dialect Survey
THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED IN THIS article about the current usage of anymore are based primarily upon the responses of 926 informants to two printed surveys distributed at the University of Missouri-Columbia during 1978-82. The first survey of 435 respondents included 106 questions, with the last ten (97-106) concerning the acceptability of sentences containing anymore. The second, follow-up survey concentrated solely upon the ten anymore sentences…
Generative Tests for Generative Meter
Valid tests for metrical theories can be constructed by removing the effect of ‘poetic’ syntactic transformations and observing the metrical consequences: e.g. Thy edge should blunter be is converted to Thy edge should be blunter (a metrical violation). Applying this approach to the over 500 inversions in Hamlet and the Sonnets provides considerable support for the metrical theories developed by Halle–Keyser and Kiparsky, with K faring slightly b…
Generative Tests for Generative Meter
Valid tests for metrical theories can be constructed by removing the effect of ‘poetic’ syntactic transformations and observing the metrical consequences: e.g. Thy edge should blunter be is converted to Thy edge should be blunter (a metrical violation). Applying this approach to the over 500 inversions in Hamlet and the Sonnets provides considerable support for the metrical theories developed by Halle–Keyser and Kiparsky, with K faring slightly b…
Any More on Anymore: Evidence from a Missouri Dialect Survey
THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED IN THIS article about the current usage of anymore are based primarily upon the responses of 926 informants to two printed surveys distributed at the University of Missouri-Columbia during 1978-82. The first survey of 435 respondents included 106 questions, with the last ten (97-106) concerning the acceptability of sentences containing anymore. The second, follow-up survey concentrated solely upon the ten anymore sentences…
A New Tool for Discourse Analysis: The Vocabulary-Management Profile
A computer is used to count the number of new vocabulary words introduced into a text over a moving interval thirty-five words long. The number of new words in each successive interval is plotted at the midpoint of the interval, generating a curve called the Vocabulary-Management Profile (VMP). Analysis of VMPs for passages from James Joyce and George Orwell illustrates that clearcut peaks and valleys on VMPs correlate closely with constituent bo…
Generative Tests for Generative Meter
Valid tests for metrical theories can be constructed by removing the effect of ‘poetic’ syntactic transformations and observing the metrical consequences: e.g. Thy edge should blunter be is converted to Thy edge should be blunter (a metrical violation). Applying this approach to the over 500 inversions in Hamlet and the Sonnets provides considerable support for the metrical theories developed by Halle–Keyser and Kiparsky, with K faring slightly b…
Any More on Anymore: Evidence from a Missouri Dialect Survey
THE CONCLUSIONS REACHED IN THIS article about the current usage of anymore are based primarily upon the responses of 926 informants to two printed surveys distributed at the University of Missouri-Columbia during 1978-82. The first survey of 435 respondents included 106 questions, with the last ten (97-106) concerning the acceptability of sentences containing anymore. The second, follow-up survey concentrated solely upon the ten anymore sentences…
A New Tool for Discourse Analysis: The Vocabulary-Management Profile
A computer is used to count the number of new vocabulary words introduced into a text over a moving interval thirty-five words long. The number of new words in each successive interval is plotted at the midpoint of the interval, generating a curve called the Vocabulary-Management Profile (VMP). Analysis of VMPs for passages from James Joyce and George Orwell illustrates that clearcut peaks and valleys on VMPs correlate closely with constituent bo…
Letters to Language
Letters to Language Gilbert Youmans, Peter Pfeifer, M. Paul Lewis, and Hope C. Dawson [Correction] Language accepts letters from readers that briefly and succinctly respond to or comment upon either material published previously in the journal or issues deemed of importance to the field. The editor reserves the right to edit letters as needed. Brief replies from relevant parties are included as warranted. Fractal dimensions of discourse January 4…
Computer Science (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Artificial Intelligence (1 works) · Field (mathematics) (1 works) · Generative grammar (1 works) · Generative model (1 works)