A statistical analysis of lexis in conversational English
A statistical analysis of lexis in conversational English
Author(s): Barbara Lewandowska-TomaszczykSubject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Methodology and research technology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Summary/Abstract: The material for the statistical analysis of lexis to be presented is taken from the transcriptions of English conversations by Svartvik and Quirk [1980, the London-Lund Corpus], prosodically analysed by the editors. The transcripts comprise 51 surrepetitious texts of about 175,000 running words recorded in the period 1953-1976. The recordings represent specimens of spontaneous conversation among British speakers, aged 18-62, educated to the university level. The analysis is based on ten samples of conversational English.
Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Linguistica
- Issue Year: 1990
- Issue No: 24
- Page Range: 136-145
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English