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14 2210 result 39 1323 like
15 2166 flour 40 1304 control
16 2016 journal 41 1300 level
17 1983 analysis 42 1259 scale
18 1982 taste 43 1239 salt
19 1977 technology 44 1195 low
20 1967 test 45 1189 research
21 1966 texture 46 1145 fat
22 1888 table 47 1130 data
23 1880 increase 48 1113 model
24 1850 property 49 1093 fruit
25 1848 water 50 1084 group
Table 1. List of 50 most frequent lemmas in the corpus of scientific
journal articles (N= 581’989).
Table 1 consists primarily of nouns (e.g. sample, property and difference),
followed by adjectives (sensory, significant, and low) and verbs (control).
A number of lemmas denote different parts of speech, for example study
occurs as singular noun study (n=1801) and in its plural form studies
(n=984), as well as in the conjugated forms studied (n=252) and studying
(n=47). In terms of content, we can vaguely distinguish between words
which refer to the actual subject of investigation such as the occurrence of
flour or fat in the composition of products; the methodological
documentation as denoted by words such as analysis, control and data; or
lexicalizations that specifically refer to the journal articles, namely the
occurrence of journal to denote the type of text. However, this is not a
clear-cut distinction and some lexemes carry various functions. For
instance, both the terms quality and preference occur in the title of one
main source, the journal Food Quality and Preference. In addition, both
lexemes are used to describe the aims/foci of the experiments, as
demonstrated in Examples (1) and (2):
(1) The objective of the present study was to determine the effects of the flour
properties of different gluten-free flours on cookie quality. (FQP 64.1^1 )
(2) A final overall preference test was also conducted with a hedonic scale
from dislike extremely to like extremely. (FST 61.1)(^1) The articles from the corpus of scientific journal articles are indexed according to
the source journal (FQP = Food Quality and Preference; FST = Food Science and
Technology) and the volume and issue number.