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stylo (version 0.7.5)

stylo.pronouns: List of pronouns

Description

This function returns a list of pronouns that can be used as a stop word list for different stylometric analyses. It has been shown that pronoun deletion improves, to some extent, attribution accuracy of stylometric procedures (e.g. in English novels: Hoover 2004a; 2004b).

Usage

stylo.pronouns(corpus.lang = "English")

Value

The function returns a vector of pronouns.

Arguments

corpus.lang

an optional argument specifying the language of the texts analyzed: available languages are English, Latin, Polish, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Hungarian (default is English).

Author

Jan Rybicki, Maciej Eder, Mike Kestemont

References

Hoover, D. (2004a). Testing Burrows's delta. "Literary and Linguistic Computing", 19(4): 453-75.

Hoover, D. (2004b). Delta prime?. "Literary and Linguistic Computing", 19(4): 477-95.

See Also

stylo

Examples

Run this code
stylo.pronouns()
stylo.pronouns(corpus.lang = "Latin")
my.stop.words = stylo.pronouns(corpus.lang = "German")

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