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Less than one percent of words would be affected by gender-inclusive language in German press texts
Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs, Alexander Koplenig +2
Research on gender and language is tightly knitted to social debates on gender equality and non-discriminatory language use. Psycholinguistic scholars have made significant contrib…
Still no evidence for an effect of the proportion of non-native speakers on language complexity -- A response to Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (2023)
Alexander Koplenig
In a recent paper published in the Journal of Language Evolution, Kauhanen, Einhaus & Walkden (https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad005, KEW) challenge the results presented in one of…
Tracking, exploring and analyzing recent developments in German-language online press in the face of the coronavirus crisis: cOWIDplus Analysis and cOWIDplus Viewer
Sascha Wolfer, Alexander Koplenig, Frank Michaelis +1
The coronavirus pandemic may be the largest crisis the world has had to face since World War II. It does not come as a surprise that it is also having an impact on language as our…
The statistical trade-off between word order and word structure - large-scale evidence for the principle of least effort
Alexander Koplenig, Peter Meyer, Sascha Wolfer +1
Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed…
Population size predicts lexical diversity, but so does the mean sea level - why it is important to correctly account for the structure of temporal data
Alexander Koplenig, Carolin Mueller-Spitzer
In order to demonstrate why it is important to correctly account for the (serial dependent) structure of temporal data, we document an apparently spectacular relationship between p…
A fully data-driven method to identify (correlated) changes in diachronic corpora
Alexander Koplenig
In this paper, a method for measuring synchronic corpus (dis-)similarity put forward by Kilgarriff (2001) is adapted and extended to identify trends and correlated changes in diach…