Factors of Formality: A Dimension of Register in a Sociolinguistic Corpus

Factors of Formality: A Dimension of Register in a Sociolinguistic Corpus. Brooke, J. & Hirst, G. In Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT-2012): Measured Language: Quantitative Approaches to Acquisition, Assessment, Processing and Variation, Washington, D.C., 2012. The poster
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Using Tagliamonte's corpus of transcribed interviews with residents of Toronto, we investigate whether the formality lexicon of Brooke, Wang, and Hirst 2010, derived from text, can be applied to speech, and whether formality in speech is indicative of underlying social factors.

@InProceedings{	  brooke5,
  author	= {Julian Brooke and Graeme Hirst},
  title		= {Factors of Formality: A Dimension of Register in a
		  Sociolinguistic Corpus},
  address	= {Washington, D.C.},
  booktitle	= {Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and
		  Linguistics (GURT-2012): Measured Language: Quantitative
		  Approaches to Acquisition, Assessment, Processing and
		  Variation},
  year		= {2012},
  note		= {<a
		  href=http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Brooke+Hirst-GURT-poster-2012.pdf>The
		  poster </a>},
  abstract	= {Using Tagliamonte's corpus of transcribed interviews with
		  residents of Toronto, we investigate whether the formality
		  lexicon of Brooke, Wang, and Hirst 2010, derived from text,
		  can be applied to speech, and whether formality in speech
		  is indicative of underlying social factors.}
}

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