Dynamics of core of language vocabulary
Computation and Language
2020-03-25 v1
Abstract
Studies of the overall structure of vocabulary and its dynamics became possible due to creation of diachronic text corpora, especially Google Books Ngram. This article discusses the question of core change rate and the degree to which the core words cover the texts. Different periods of the last three centuries and six main European languages presented in Google Books Ngram are compared. The main result is high stability of core change rate, which is analogous to stability of the Swadesh list.
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@article{arxiv.1705.10112,
title = {Dynamics of core of language vocabulary},
author = {Valery D. Solovyev and Vladimir V. Bochkarev and Anna V. Shevlyakova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10112},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
This report was presented at the Workshop "Computational linguistics and language science", Moscow, Russia on April 25, 2016