languageR (version 1.0)

durationsGe: Durational measurements on the Dutch prefix ge-

Description

Durational measurements on the Dutch prefix ge- in the Spoken Dutch Corpus.

Usage

data(durationsGe)

References

Pluymaekers, M., Ernestus, M. and Baayen, R. H. (2005) Frequency and acoustic length: the case of derivational affixes in Dutch, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 2561-2569.

Examples

data(durationsGe)
    durationsGe$Frequency = log(durationsGe$Frequency + 1)
    durationsGe$YearOfBirth = durationsGe$YearOfBirth - 1900

    durationsGe.lm = lm(DurationOfPrefix ~ Frequency+SpeechRate, data = durationsGe)
    summary(durationsGe.lm)

    # ---- model criticism
    
    plot(durationsGe.lm)
    outliers = c(271, 392, 256, 413, 118, 256)
    durationsGe.lm = lm(DurationOfPrefix ~ Frequency + SpeechRate, 
      data = durationsGe[-outliers, ])
    summary(durationsGe.lm)