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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">Cronfa
Electroneg o Gymraeg (CEG)</font><br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#000000">A 1
million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh<br>
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Please circulate to those interested<br>
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This is a word frequency analysis of 1,079,032 words of written Welsh
prose, based on 500 samples of approximately 2000 words each, selected
from a representative range of text types to illustrate modern (mainly
post 1970) Welsh prose writing. It was conceived as providing a Welsh
parallel to the Kucera and Francis analysis for American English, and
the LOB corpus for British English, in the expectation that such an
analysed corpus would provide research tools for a number of academic
disciplines: psychology and psycholinguistics, child and second
language acquisition, general linguistics, and the linguistics of
Modern Welsh, including literary analysis.<br>
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The sample included materials from the fields of
novels and short stories, religious writing, childrenís literature
both factual and fiction, non-fiction materials in the fields of
education, science, business, leisure activities, etc., public
lectures, newspapers and magazines, both national and local,
reminiscences, academic writing, and general administrative materials
(letters, reports, minutes of meetings).<br>
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The resultant corpus was analysed to produce
frequency counts of words both in their raw form and as counts of
lemmas where each token is demutated and tagged to its root. This
analysis also derives basic information concerning the frequencies of
different word classes, inflections, mutations, and other grammatical
features.<br>
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Available on-line:<br>
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Ellis, N. C., O'Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan,
M., & Laporte, N. (2001). Cronfa Electroneg o Gymraeg (CEG):
A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh.
[On-line], Available:
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/cb/ceg/ceg_eng.html<br>
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Cronfa Electroneg o Gymraeg (CEG)<br>
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Cronfa ddata eirfaol o filiwn o eiriau sy'n cyfrif amlder defnydd
geiriau yn y Gymraeg<br>
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A wnewch chi gylchredeg hwn i bawb sydd â diddordeb ynddo.<br>
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Mae hwn yn ddadansoddiad amlder geiriau o 1,079,032 o eiriau o
ryddiaith Gymraeg ysgrifenedig, a seiliwyd ar 500 o samplau o tua 2000
o eiriau yr un. Fe'u detholwyd o ystod gynrychioliadol o destunau
rhyddiaith Gymraeg gyfoes (o 1970 ymlaen yn bennaf). Y nod oedd cynnig
rhywbeth cyffelyb i ddadansoddiad Kucera a Francis o Saesneg
Americanaidd, a'r corpws LOB o Saesneg Prydeinig. Y disgwyl oedd y
byddai corpws a ddadansoddwyd fel hyn yn cynnig offer ymchwil ar gyfer
nifer o ddisgyblaethau academaidd:<br>
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*<x-tab> </x-tab>seicoleg a seicoieithyddiaeth<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>plant yn caffael ail iaith<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>ieitheg gyffredinol<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>ieitheg y Gymraeg Cyfoes, gan
gynnwys dadansoddi llenyddol.<br>
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Roedd y sampl yn cynnwys:<br>
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*<x-tab> </x-tab>deunyddiau o
feysydd nofelau a straeon byrion<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>ysgrifennu crefyddol<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>llenyddiaeth plant (ffeithiol a
dychmygol)<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>deunyddiau ym meysydd addysg,
gwyddoniaeth, busnes, gweithgareddau hamdden, etc.<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>darlithoedd
cyhoeddus<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>papurau newydd a chylchgronau - cenedlaethol a
lleol<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>atgofion<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>ysgrifennu
academaidd<br>
*<x-tab> </x-tab>deunyddiau gweinyddu cyffredinol (yn llythyrau,
adroddiadau,<br>
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Dadansoddwyd y corpws i gynhyrchu cyfrifon amlder
geiriau yn eu ffurf grai yn ogystal â chyfrifon o lemata lle mae pob
arwydd wedi ei ddad-dreiglo a'i dagio yn ôl ei wreiddyn. Rhydd y
dadansoddiad yma hefyd wybodaeth sylfaenol am amlder y gwahanol
ddosbarthiadau geiriol, ffurfdroadau, treigliadau a nodweddion
gramadegol eraill.<br>
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Ar gael ar-lein:<br>
Ellis, N. C., O'Dochartaigh, C., Hicks, W., Morgan,
M., & Laporte, N. (2001). Cronfa Electroneg o Gymraeg (CEG):
A 1 million word lexical database and frequency count for Welsh.
[On-line], Available:
http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ar/cb/ceg/ceg_cym.html</font></div>
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