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An interactive visualization of Google Books Ngrams with R and Shiny : exploring a(n) historical increase in onset strength in a(n) huge database
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Using the re-emergence of the /h/ onset from Early Modern to Present-Day English as a case study, we illustrate the making and the functions of a purpose-built web application named (an:a)-lyzer for the interactive visualization of the raw n-gram data provided by Google Books Ngrams (GBN). The database has been compiled from the full text of over 4.5 million books in English, totalling over 468 billion words and covering roughly five centuries. We focus on bigrams consisting of words beginning with graphic preceded by the indefinite article allomorphs a and an, which serve as a diagnostic of the consonantal strength of the initial /h/. The sheer size of this database affords us the possibility to attain a maximal diachronic resolution, to distinguish highly specific groups of -initial lexical items, and even to trace the diffusion of the observed changes across individual lexical units. The functions programmed into the app enable us to explore the data interactively by filtering, selecting and viewing them according to various parameters that were manually annotated into the data frame. We also discuss limitations of the database, of the app and of the explorative data analysis. The app is publicly accessible online at https://osf.io/ht8se/.
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420; corpus linguistics; Data visualization; Google Books; Google Books Ngrams; historical linguistics; historical phonology; n-grams; R; Shiny
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URL: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02149498 https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/49402
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An interactive visualization of Google Books Ngrams with R and Shiny : exploring a(n) historical increase in onset strength in a(n) huge database
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Tracing the (re-)emergence of /h/ and /j/ onsets through 350 years of books : mergers and merger reversals at the interface of phonetics and phonology
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Tracing the (re-)emergence of /h/ and /j/ onsets through 350 years of books : mergers and merger reversals at the interface of phonetics and phonology
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Variante oder Fehler? : Der Beitrag der englischen Korpuslinguistik zur Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung
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Phonological determinants of grammatical variation in English: Chomsky’s worst possible case
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All beginnings are light: A study of upbeat phenomena at the syntax-phonology interface
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Schlüter, Julia. - : Mouton de Gruyter, 2019. : Berlin u.a., 2019. : nobamberg, 2019
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All Beginnings Are Light : A Study of Upbeat Phenomena at the Syntax-Phonology Interface
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Phonological determinants of grammatical variation in English : Chomsky’s worst possible case
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