The hapax / type ratio

IF 1.6 2区 文学 N/A LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS International Journal of Corpus Linguistics Pub Date : 2022-03-09 DOI:10.1075/ijcl.19114.van
Niek Van Wettere
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This article addresses one of the lesser-known productivity measures, namely the hapax / type ratio (HTR). Through a case study involving the Dutch semi-copula raken (“attain”), it is shown that the HTR more or less stabilizes from a certain sample size onwards. Moreover, this point of stabilization seems to coincide with an increased permanency of the hapaxes, i.e. the share of hapaxes that convert quickly to non-hapaxes is not as large as was the case at the beginning of the sampling process. Therefore, the stabilization of the HTR might be a good indicator of minimally required sample size in productivity studies, suggesting that the hapaxes are ‘non-incidental’ from this sample size onwards. However, I did not find a clear link between the onset of the stabilization of the HTR and the extent to which the inventory of types accounted for at the top of the frequency distribution is (quasi-)complete.
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hapax / type比率
本文讨论了一个鲜为人知的生产力度量,即hapax / type ratio (HTR)。通过一个涉及荷兰半copula raken(“attain”)的案例研究,表明HTR从一定的样本量开始或多或少趋于稳定。此外,这个稳定点似乎与hapax的持久性增加相一致,即迅速转化为非hapax的hapax的份额不像抽样过程开始时那样大。因此,HTR的稳定性可能是生产力研究中最小样本量的一个很好的指标,这表明从这个样本量开始,hapax是“非偶然的”。然而,我没有发现HTR稳定的开始与频率分布顶部的类型清单(准)完整的程度之间存在明确的联系。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics (IJCL) publishes original research covering methodological, applied and theoretical work in any area of corpus linguistics. Through its focus on empirical language research, IJCL provides a forum for the presentation of new findings and innovative approaches in any area of linguistics (e.g. lexicology, grammar, discourse analysis, stylistics, sociolinguistics, morphology, contrastive linguistics), applied linguistics (e.g. language teaching, forensic linguistics), and translation studies. Based on its interest in corpus methodology, IJCL also invites contributions on the interface between corpus and computational linguistics.
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