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Quantitative Analysis of Frequency Dynamics of Synonymic Dominants

Authors : Valery Solovyev, Vladimir Bochkarev, Anna Shevlyakova

Published in: Digital Transformation and Global Society

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Abstract

Traditionally, it is believed in linguistics that the center of any semantic field is more stable than the periphery. Quantitative testing of this hypothesis has become possible due to creation of large diachronic text corpora. The article describes the results of quantitative analysis of “central elements” (semantic dominants) of 82 synonymic sets, which were taken from a dictionary by Yu.D. Apresyan. First, we identified the most frequent words in each synonymic set. Then, we analysed the dynamics of their frequency over the two centuries, according to the Google Books Ngram corpus. It was found that the semantic dominants show a statistically significant tendency to decrease in frequency with respect to other members of the synonymic sets. It was also shown that frequency of the synonymic dominants is more stable in comparison with randomly selected words which have a close frequency.

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Metadata
Title
Quantitative Analysis of Frequency Dynamics of Synonymic Dominants
Authors
Valery Solovyev
Vladimir Bochkarev
Anna Shevlyakova
Copyright Year
2019
Book
Digital Transformation and Global Society

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-37857-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-37858-5

Copyright Year: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37858-5_59

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