A lectometric analysis of aggregated lexical variation in written Standard English with Semantic Vector Space models
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12621635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Ruette (KU Leuven, corresponding author), Katharina Ehret (0000-0003-1117-3495, University of Freiburg), Benedikt Szmrecsanyi (0000-0001-8844-6602) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-79 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1384-6655 • E-ISSN: 1569-9811 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/ijcl.21.1.03rue |
| OpenAlex | W2321791494 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
Lectometry is a corpus-based methodology that explores how multiple language-external dimensions shape language usage in an aggregate perspective. The paper combines this methodology with Semantic Vector Space modeling to investigate lexical variability in written Standard English, as sampled in the original Brown family of corpora (Brown, LOB, Frown and F-LOB). Based on a joint analysis of 303 lexical variables, which are semi-automatically extracted by means of a SVS, we find that lexical variation in the Brown family is systematically related to three lectal dimensions: discourse type (informative versus imaginative), standard variety (British English versus American English), and time period (1960s versus 1990s). It turns out that most lexical variables are sensitive to at least one of these three language-external dimensions, yet not every dimension has dedicated lexical variables: in particular, distinctive lexical variables for the real time dimension fail to emerge
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |