Questions tagged [frequency]
How often a linguistic element occurs relative to other linguistic elements.
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Is there a difference of occurrence between sentences with a plural and a singular subject?
Is there a significant difference between the frequency of occurrence of sentences which concern a plural subject and the frequency of occurrence of sentences which concern a singular subject?
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Word information vs. word frequency in a text
I am looking for a basic mathematical model of information encoded in a text.
For the sake of presentation I adopt a language learner perspective: how many words does one need to know, in order to ...
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Dealing with words having token-frequency 1 when calculating Phonotactic Probability
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This is a repost of a question on the Mathematics StackExchange Board. It has been modified to fit this board :)
I am open to suggestions
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I am trying to calculate phonotactic ...
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All vocal formants in order of frequency?
Wondering if there's any resource online that can show the sequence of vowel pitch high to low. I realise that frequencies vary depending on the speaker/accent/etc, but some kind of average/ballpark. ...
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Are linguistic corpora under threat from AI-generated text?
As many will be aware, there has been a lot of concern about the spread of AI generated text posted on the Stack Exchange network, leading to moderators on several sites standing down. See here and ...
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Geographic distribution of ‘I haven’t’ and ‘I’ve not’
The answer to this question on English Language & Usage discusses a possible difference between American and British dialects in their use of ‘I’ve not’ and ‘I haven’t’. I have noticed ‘I’ve not’ ...
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Why don't certain antonym pairs get rearranged often?
Why don't certain antonym pairs get rearranged often? We have little and big, small and large, but almost never hear little and large.
Another example: weak and strong, soft and tough, but never weak ...
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Is there a list of common English verbs with all of the inflectional "principal parts"?
I am looking for a list of common English verbs (1000 to 2000 most-frequent) which gives the distinct inflectional forms (spelled: pronunciation is irrelevant). For example, "sits, sit, sat, sat, ...
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Embedding conditional statements in relative and complement clauses
I happened to run across the following sentence on ELL.SE:
Anyone who feels that if so many more students whom we haven't actually admitted are sitting in on the course than ones we have that the ...
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How can I find the frequency for the Russian word "чем-нибудь"?
I've tried searching for the word "чем-нибудь"on the 20,000 word list I found on Wikipedia. You can link directly to it here. For the sake of thoroughness, I even searched the larger 50,...
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What is the frequency of color words in English compared to German?
I am writing a term paper about the role of adjectives and gender marking in efficient communication about English and German respectively.
And I was wondering if there is any way/website/tool to ...
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Praat 16,000 Hz
When I opened an American English Podcast in Praat, the area below 16,000 Hertz were all gray or dark. Then I speak some sentences in japanese then the area below 8,000 hertz were dark.
How do english ...
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What is the frequency of Devanagari signs in Sanskrit?
I've been searching everywhere to find the frequency of Devanagari's signs (including the sign in a conjunct) in a typical Sanskrit text. I found the frequency of Devanagari conjuncts here and there ...
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How much more often is a definite article used with a noun than an indefinite article in the English language?
I'd be happy if I could get an overall answer to this question, but if someone is also capable of breaking this down by
single vs. plural nouns
nouns as subject vs. nouns as direct objects
nouns as ...
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Frequency of phonemes in Indian languages
I would like to know the relative frequency of phonemes in Indian languages whose sript is basically very close to Devanagiri. We need this data to make a pronunciation based keyboard layout for ...
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