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A New Tool for Discourse Analysis: The Vocabulary-Management Profile.

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Youmans, Gilbert – Language, 1991

Proposes the Vocabulary-Management Profile, a tool for discourse analysis. The number of new words introduced in a moving interval of text 35 words long is counted and a curve created by plotting the number of new words in a successive interval at the midpoint of the interval. Analyses of text by George Orwell and James Joyce are presented. (JL)

Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Generative Grammar

Syntactic Variation and Change in Progress: Loss of the Verbal Coda in Topic-Restricting as Far as Constructions.

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Rickford, John.; And Others – Language, 1995

This article examines the variable absence of the verb in "as far as" constructions, which serve as qualifiers or topic restrictors in English. (46 references) (Author/CK)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Discourse Analysis