Bohmann Axel, Bohmann Martin, Hinrichs Lars
Englisches Seminar, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - Vienna (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
Front Artif Intell. 2021 Jun 29;4:654154. doi: 10.3389/frai.2021.654154. eCollection 2021.
We explore the relationship between word dissemination and frequency change for a rapidly receding feature, the relativizer . The success of newly emerging words has been shown to correlate with high dissemination scores. However, the reverse-a correlation of lower dissemination scores with receding features-has not been investigated. Based on two established and two newly developed measures of word dissemination-across texts, linguistic environments, registers, and topics-we show that a general correlation between dissemination and frequency does not obtain in the case of . Different dissemination measures diverge from each other and show internally variable developments. These can, however, be explained with reference to the specific sociolinguistic history of over the past 300 years. Our findings suggest that the relationship between dissemination and word success is not static, but needs to be contextualized against different stages in individual words' life-cycles. Our study demonstrates the applicability of large-scale, quantitative measures to qualitatively informed sociolinguistic research.
我们探讨了一种迅速衰退的特征——关系代词，其词汇传播与频率变化之间的关系。新兴词汇的成功已被证明与高传播得分相关。然而，传播得分较低与衰退特征之间的反向关联尚未得到研究。基于两种既定的和两种新开发的词汇传播测量方法——跨文本、语言环境、语域和主题——我们表明，在关系代词的情况下，传播与频率之间不存在普遍的相关性。不同的传播测量方法相互背离，并呈现出内部变化的发展趋势。然而，这些可以参照关系代词在过去300年特定的社会语言历史来解释。我们的研究结果表明，传播与词汇成功之间的关系不是静态的，而是需要根据单个词汇生命周期的不同阶段进行情境化分析。我们的研究证明了大规模定量测量方法在定性的社会语言研究中的适用性。
