Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics (Cognitive Linguistic Research)

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ties tend to behave in the same way with regard to fashion and clothing
French terms.

Figure 3. Correlation between uniformity and item-related features in the football
corpus

Figure 4. Correlation between uniformity and item-related features in the clothing
corpus

Statistics give a more precise answer in Table 15 through the method of
regression analysis.^4 The ENDO (endogenousness) parameter appears to be
the most correlated one with uniformity U: it always provides significant