Frequency norms in Tashlhiyt, Part I

John Alderete , Jane Li , Rachid Ridouane (1)

1 LPP - LPP - Laboratoire de Phonétique et Phonologie - UMR 7018

This article gives a preliminary account of lexical and sub-lexical frequency norms in Tashlhiyt, an Amazigh language of Morocco. A corpus of nine texts with roughly 19k words was analyzed as a list of structured representations for words that distinguish part of speech, open/closed class, morphological make-up, and surface versus lexical representations. A lexicon was built from the corpus to identify unique word types and document the frequencies of these types. The frequencies of sub-lexical phonological segments are also documented, including how phonological representation, morpho-syntactic categories, and the type/token distinction affect segment frequency. All of the frequency norms are available as open data sets.

Mots clés: frequency norms; word frequency; segment frequency; corpus linguistics; Tashlhiyt; Amazigh

Domaines: Linguistique

John Alderete, Jane Li, Rachid Ridouane. Frequency norms in Tashlhiyt, Part I. 2022. ⟨halshs-03511109⟩