Trends

[Paul Ibbotson]

I have a paper that uses Google Ngram to explore the un-construction in
English. Link below for those who are interested.

http://www.frontiersin.org/Language_Sciences/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00989/abstract

Best wishes,
Paul Ibbotson



On 24 December 2013 02:14, William Croft <wcroft at unm.edu> wrote:

> Dear Funknetters,
>
>    Last week Terry Regier and I were playing around with the Google Books
> Ngram Viewer (https://books.google.com/ngrams). For those of you who have
> not yet become addicted to the Ngram Viewer, it plots the token frequency
> of words and word strings over time in the books in Google Books. If you
> separate words by commas, you can plot the token frequencies of multiple
> strings on a single graph.
>     We set the time window as 1950 to 2008 (the latest year available);
> some of the more interesting plots we tried were:
>
> linguistics, Chomsky [NB: search terms are case sensitive]
> generative grammar, cognitive linguistics
> formal linguistics, functional linguistics
>
>    Of course, there are many caveats that must be added to these raw token
> frequencies (for instance, we dropped the case sensitivity of "cognitive
> linguistics", but the results were distorted by the many references to
> articles in "Cognitive Linguistics"). But the apparent trends are
> interesting to consider.
>
> Happy Holidays,
> Bill Croft
>
>