• 1 term paper draft
  • 1.1 init
  • 1.2 method
    • 1.2.1 corpus sample
    • 1.2.2 script used:
    • 1.2.3 process:
• 2 B: references

1 term paper draft

topic #6, polysemous verbs with light and concrete senses, replication study of Mehl (2021), further used Gilquin (2008)

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1.1 init ⇪

“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)

1.2 method ⇪

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

1.2.1 corpus sample ⇪

	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

1.2.2 script used: ⇪

14015.concrete-abstract_HA.R

1.2.3 process: ⇪

1.2.3.1 distribution analysis ⇪

cf. (Mehl 2021, 11–14)

	ICE.written	ICE.spoken	SBC.spoken
concrete	68	96	89
light	321	353	381

1.2.3.2 semantic alternatives to make ⇪

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

semantic alternatives

	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	**

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2 B: references ⇪