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Natural Language Processing and Syntactic Differentiation : = A Corpus Case Study.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Natural Language Processing and Syntactic Differentiation :/
Reminder of title:	A Corpus Case Study.
Author:	Wright, Melissa.
Description:	1 online resource (59 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International56-05(E).
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9781369886030

Natural Language Processing and Syntactic Differentiation : = A Corpus Case Study.
Wright, Melissa.

Natural Language Processing and Syntactic Differentiation :A Corpus Case Study. - 1 online resource (59 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-05.

Thesis (M.A.)

Includes bibliographical references

This study analyzed syntactic structures retrieved from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. Specifically, the constituents and parts of speech within two types of text in the novel -- dialogue and descriptive/explanatory -- were examined, with the hypotheses that, between the dialogue and the descriptive texts within the narrative, one type would display longer syntactic structures and more embedded clauses, and that specific conjunctions occur more frequently within structures with these clauses. This study utilized natural language processing (NLP) to investigate syntactic length and frequency of parts of speech in the character dialogue and descriptive passages in this narrative. The hypotheses prove to be true, and I prove that Wilde's character dialogue provides simpler and smaller syntactic structures than the descriptive passages. The findings in this study illustrate the importance of context when studying linguistic features -- within a conversation, it may be a subconscious expectation that speakers will employ simpler constructions due to working memory (WM) load; however, when reading a descriptive passage within a written work, such limitations may not apply. The results of this study can enable future researchers to investigate linguistic components specific to an individual's written and oral speech patterns that may indicate linguistic-stylistic intricacies, unconscious conversational syntactic principles, and the process of clause embedding.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369886030Subjects--Topical Terms:

557829
Linguistics.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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