Spoken Language Vocabulary and Structural Frequency Count - Swahili Data Analyses.

Abstract

The report is a frequency analysis of vocabulary and sentence patterns in the Swahili language. The corpora used are a media sample, a discussion session, elicited sentences, and words elicited for frame sentences. The outputs are the following frequency tables: (a) semantic frequency of combined corpus (media, discussion, elicited sentences) listed alphabetically with inflectional and derivational variants as subentries; (b) semantic frequency of combined corpus listed by frequency; (c) sentence pattern frequency from corpus of elicited sentences; (d) H-ranks and phi-coefficients for corpus of elicited words. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1973
Accession Number
AD0775926

Entities

People

  • Charles C. Pratt
  • Ibrahim Rubama
  • Murray S. Miron

Organizations

  • SRC Inc.

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Coefficients
  • Data Analysis
  • Frequency
  • Language
  • Vocabulary

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics