Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

112 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts can be equally useful to more theoretically-oriented linguistic research. Than ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 113 tics of these models (Sahlgren 2006, Padó and Lapata 2007, Peirsman, Heylen a ...

114 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts Nevertheless, these approaches model the behaviour of a word quite differ- ent ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 115 These two models tend to find totally different types of semantic rela- tedne ...

116 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts d.obj_drink d.obj_buy d.obj_prefer d.obj_park pp.obj_glass_of pp.obj_bottle_of ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 117 quantified as the cosine of the angle between their context vectors. Because ...

118 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts be situated at the crossroads of diachronic linguistics, sociolinguistics and ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 119 by a more quantitative approach. For instance, if we want to find out whether ...

120 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts postmodified by a PP with head n, introduced by preposition p (pmPP/n_p), mod ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 121 3.2.1. Syntax-based distribution One way of determining how the distribution ...

122 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts Table 1. The ten highest climbers in the list of nearest neighbors to islam an ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 123 daism’, hindoeïsme ‘Hinduism’, ethiek ‘ethics’, protestante ‘Protestant’, boe ...

124 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts answer this question, we have to turn our attention to the contextual fea- tur ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 125 dimensions that dominate. The word is often conjoined with other nouns like i ...

126 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts most interesting patterns. The neighbors most typical of islam either refer to ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 127 will measure the distance between those lexical fields as a function of the d ...

128 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts words more related to 9/11 itself: 11 ‘11’, september ‘September’, Ameri- kaan ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 129 ics of terrorism, war, culture and religion. The relatedness between two lexi ...

130 Yves Peirsman, Kris Heylen and Dirk Geeraerts come more pronounced after the September 11 attacks. We see an increase in rel ...

Applying word space models to sociolinguistics 131 change, but it goes hand in hand with tighter links to war, religion and cul- ...