languageR (version 1.0)

affixProductivity: Affix productivity

Description

Affix productivity, gauged by the P* productivity measure, for 27 English affixes in 44 texts.

Usage

data(affixProductivity)

source

Most texts were obtained from the Gutenberg Project (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) and the Oxford Text Archive (http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/).

References

Baayen, R. H. (1994) Derivational Productivity and Text Typology, Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 1, 16-34.

Examples

data(affixProductivity)
affixes.pr = prcomp(affixProductivity[,1:(ncol(affixProductivity)-3)], 
center = TRUE, scale. = TRUE)
library(lattice)
trellis.device()
super.sym = trellis.par.get("superpose.symbol")
splom(data.frame(affixes.pr$x[,1:3]), 
groups = affixProductivity$Registers, 
panel = panel.superpose,
key = list(title  = "texts in productivity space",
text   = list(c("Religious", "Children", "Literary", "Other")),
points = list(pch = super.sym$pch[1:4], col = super.sym$col[1:4])))