LEXICAL DIVERSITY, LENGTH OF TEXT, FREQUENCIES OF PARTS OF SPEECH AS INDICATORS OF SOCIOLINGUISTIC VARIATION
Keywords:
sociolinguistic variation, gender, age, specialty, education level, lexical diversity, length of text in word forms, frequency of parts of speech.Abstract
The study examines the extent to which three indicators (the lexical diversity (LD), the length of text in tokens (word forms), and the frequency of different parts of speech) demonstrate sociolinguistic variation in oral monologues. Based on a balanced sample of authors (N=48), adjusted for factors gender, age, specialty, and education level, statistical indicators of sample differences were calculated. The study utilized exclusively machine analysis methods using Python scripts. The results showed that, in the studied material, the lexical diversity parameter differs only depending on the "age" factor; the volume also differentiates the texts of younger and older informants. The frequencies of parts of speech vary significantly between the texts of men and women, and their qualitative differences likely reflect text-generation strategies.References
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