Essays about: "Type-Token Ratio"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Type-Token Ratio.

1. 1. Murderbot Speaks : a Corpus Stylistics Look at Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)

   Author : Alvaro Gomez Sawicki; [2022]
   Keywords : murderbot; corpus; linguistics; corpus stylistics;

   Abstract : The Murderbot Diaries is a series of science fiction books that deal with the experiences of Murderbot, a human-machine construct. This study uses a corpus stylistics methodology to analyse the language of the books and looks for changes that occur in said language. READ MORE

3. 2. Cognitive Load Theory as a Predictor for Citation Count

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologi

   Author : Samuel Karl Ramos; [2021]
   Keywords : Cognitive Load Theory; Gunning Fog Index; Type-Token Ratio; Dale-Chall Score; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine if the cognitive load that is induced from different degrees of text complexity in scientific abstracts has an influence on how often the study will get cited. While the influence of cognitive load is well documented in research of activities such as attention allocation, decision making and reading comprehension, it is not known whether such effects can also be applied to more complex activities, such as whether a scientific paper will be influential (or not). READ MORE

4. 3. Read-a-paper-bility: can you read this paper for me? : A readability study of The Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Erik Jonsson; [2018]
   Keywords : readability; newspaper readability; readability formulas; the active voice; the passive voice; linking words; clauses per sentence; type-token ratio;

   Abstract : In our information age, it is of the highest importance that information is easy to understand by as many members of the potential target audience as possible. The present study analyses and compares the readability of 20 newspaper articles, half from the tabloid Daily Mail and the other half from the broadsheet The Daily Telegraph. READ MORE

5. 4. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Niclas Vikström; [2015]
   Keywords : Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

   Abstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE

6. 5. Français Tirailleur : - A Corpus Study

   University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Hedvig Skirgård; [2013]
   Keywords : francais; tirailleur; pidgin; west africa; senegal; tirailleur senegalais; lucie cousturier; mangin;

   Abstract : Français Tirailleur (FT) är ett pidginspråk som talades av västafrikanska soldateroch deras vita officerare i den franska kolonialarmen cirka 1857-1954. Den häruppsatser beskriver denna språkvatietet utifrån ett korpus som består av de dokumenteradeyttranden som hittills hittats. READ MORE