[Lingtyp] Two types of frequency

[Jocelyn Aznar]

Dear Ian,

I guess the terms could depend on your methodology, how you try to 
approach those two bits of info. Regarding the first problematic, one 
could use a dictionary as a way to represent a lect's vocabulary. If so, 
you could name it dictionary-based frequency.

Regarding the second one, as far as I know, there isn't any reliable 
way. But one could use or build a corpus to try to represent a genre, a 
register or a communication situation and then count the occurrences. 
Then it would be corpus-based frequency, which as Siva Kalyan pointed 
out, is actually more often called token frequency.

Best,
Jocelyn

Le 23/01/2024 à 10:59, Ian Joo a écrit :
> Dear typologists,
> 
> What are the terms for the following two types of frequency:
> 
> 1. The frequency in which a phoneme appears in the lexemes of a lect's 
> vocabulary (i.e. how many lexemes have this phoneme)
> 
> 2. The frequency in which a phoneme appears within the utterance of the 
> lect's user (i.e. how often does this phoneme occur in a given person's 
> use of this lect)
> 
> Googling and ChatGPT have failed me. I would appreciate it if you could 
> let me know whether there are terms for these two types of frequency.
> 
> Regards,
> Ian
> 
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