The temporal development of the frequencies of Italian words was observed in data taken from the corpus of the 64 end-of-year messages of the Italian presidents (1949−2012). For this study, data were organised in 10 data sets, one for each president, that include all messages delivered by the same representative during his presidential office. The Piotrowski-Altmann Law was considered an appropriate model of the frequency dynamics over time. Results show that words could be ascribed to several categories of dynamics and the parameters of the Piotrowski-Altmann Law proved to be a way to cluster words portraying a similar temporal evolution.
Tracing the history of words
TUZZI, ARJUNA;
2015
Abstract
The temporal development of the frequencies of Italian words was observed in data taken from the corpus of the 64 end-of-year messages of the Italian presidents (1949−2012). For this study, data were organised in 10 data sets, one for each president, that include all messages delivered by the same representative during his presidential office. The Piotrowski-Altmann Law was considered an appropriate model of the frequency dynamics over time. Results show that words could be ascribed to several categories of dynamics and the parameters of the Piotrowski-Altmann Law proved to be a way to cluster words portraying a similar temporal evolution.Pubblicazioni consigliate
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