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- Title
A stylometric approach to the study of differences between standard variants of Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian, or: is the Hobbit in Serbian more Hobbit or more Serbian?
- Authors
Waldenfels, Ruprecht; Eder, Maciej
- Abstract
The article uses a stylometric approach to study differences between standard variants of the pluricentric standard language Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian in a corpus of originals and translations from other languages. Three experiments are reported. The first two serve to show that choice of the Croatian vs. Serbian variant is not the most important factor shaping frequency profiles of translations; rather, author-specific and other stylistic factors have a stronger impact. For the third experiment, a classifier is trained and its factors are analyzed to pinpoint variant-specific differences in the frequencies of word forms that are used in both variants. Our results show that a stylometric approach is useful in an empirical investigation of recurrent differences between different varieties and standard variants of BCS.
- Subjects
STANDARD language; BOSNIAN language; CROATIAN language; SERBIAN language; STYLOMETRY
- Publication
Russian Linguistics, 2016, Vol 40, Issue 1, p11
- ISSN
0304-3487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11185-015-9155-4