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topic #6, polysemous verbs with light and concrete senses, replication study of Mehl (2021), further used Gilquin (2008)
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“If onomasiological frequency measurements do indeed correlate with elicitation tests, potential impact would be immense. Researchers would be able to examine onomasiological frequencies in spoken corpora rather than performing elicitation tests. That possibility would facilitate cognitive research into languages and varieties around the world, without the necessity of in situ psycholinguistic testing, and would also encourage the creation of more spoken corpora.” (Mehl (2021) p.23)
following corpus was used to determine frequencies:
Q.1: Santa Barbara corpus of spoken American English, (UCSB et al. (2005))
the corpus data was downloaded from: https://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/sites/secure.lsit.ucsb.edu.ling.d7/files/sitefiles/research/SBC/SBCorpus.zip
scb | id | text | lfd | light | alt | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2974 | 3 | 242 | % I wanted it to be home made Q . | 2974 | 0 | make |
65343 | 57 | 123 | … It’s gonna get messed up. | 65343 | NA | a-other |
9465 | 8 | 567 | and then I didn’t and I .. kept making like, | 9465 | 1 | make |
67928 | 59 | 714 | And he’s really good at making out .. the budget. | 67928 | 1 | make |
35078 | 30 | 612 | … God is continually .. building character. | 35078 | 0 | build |
61913 | 53 | 604 | and make the payroll, | 61913 | 1 | make |
28500 | 24 | 25 | .. Yeah. | 28500 | NA | a-other |
cf. (Mehl 2021, 11–14)
ICE.written | ICE.spoken | SBC.spoken | |
---|---|---|---|
concrete | 68 | 96 | 89 |
light | 321 | 353 | 381 |
this contrast includes made up alternatives to /make/ that Mehl defined in his study. we do not account for the context of these alternatives in the corpus texts, i.e. all occurences are counted. Mehl contrasted only these alternate occurences which “are defined as those verbs that occur in the corpus with the same concrete direct objects as make, (take, and give,) and with a roughly equivalent meaning.” Mehl puts these under “onomasiological alternates”. (cf. Mehl (2021) p.13)
Var1 | Freq |
---|---|
build | 101 |
construct | 1 |
create | 23 |
generate | 4 |
make | 89 |
produce | 5 |
SLOT1 | SLOT2 | fS1 | fS2 | OBS | EXP | ASSOC | COLL.STR.LOGL | SIGNIF | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
137 | finish | afghan | 13 | 2 | 2 | 0 | attr | 28.51461 | ***** |
654 | Filled | cookie | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | attr | 15.81813 | **** |
924 | create | Adam | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | attr | 14.17394 | *** |
928 | create | rift | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | attr | 14.17394 | *** |
930 | record | Simpsons | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | attr | 14.17394 | *** |
1337 | shovel | food | 1 | 34 | 1 | 0 | attr | 12.20185 | *** |
1338 | Unsweeten | food | 1 | 34 | 1 | 0 | attr | 12.20185 | *** |
1476 | filling | stuff | 1 | 46 | 1 | 0 | attr | 11.58948 | *** |
1518 | create | cause | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | attr | 11.40296 | *** |
1519 | create | committee | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | attr | 11.40296 | *** |
1520 | create | condition | 13 | 2 | 1 | 0 | attr | 11.40296 | *** |
1784 | bake | bread | 5 | 7 | 1 | 0 | attr | 10.48243 | ** |
1862 | roll | tamale | 8 | 5 | 1 | 0 | attr | 10.19627 | ** |
2626 | record | trip | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | attr | 8.15687 | ** |
3307 | record | game | 13 | 16 | 1 | 0 | attr | 6.71671 | ** |