The paper presents an application of Multidimensional (MD) analysis initially developed for the analysis of register variation in English (Biber, 1988) to the investigation of a genre diverse corpus, which was built from modern texts of the Russian Web. The analysis is based on the idea that each linguistic feature has different frequencies in different registers, and statistically stable co-oc...

Recent work in natural language generation has begun to take linguistic variation into account, developing algorithms that are capable of modifying the system’s linguistic style based either on the user’s linguistic style or other factors, such as personality or politeness. While stylistic control has traditionally relied on handcrafted rules, statistical methods are likely to be needed for gen...

Joint analyses of genes and languages, both of which are transmitted in populations by descent with modification-genes vertically by Mendel's laws, language via combinations of vertical, oblique, and horizontal processes [1-4]-provide an informative approach for human evolutionary studies [5-10]. Although gene-language analyses have employed extensive data on individual genetic variation [11-23...

OBJECTIVES The notion that patterns of linguistic and biological variation may cast light on each other and on population histories dates back to Darwin's times; yet, turning this intuition into a proper research program has met with serious methodological difficulties, especially affecting language comparisons. This article takes advantage of two new tools of comparative linguistics: a refined...

Abstract Linguistic judgment experiments typically elicit judgments in terms of the acceptability or surface probability a sentence. There is evidence that dimension scale on which sentences are judged influences outcome experiment, but to date this only limited. This not trivial matter, as elicited data increasingly considered basis for inferences about linguistic representation. The present s...

The aim of the present investigation was to get an impression of the geographic influences on the dialectal variation in a country. In previous investigations, the correlations between linguistic distances and geographic distances using dialect data from the Netherlands and Norway were calculated (Gooskens and Heeringa 2004, Nerbonne et al. 1996). The results showed a high correlation in the ca...

Since the early studies by Sokal (1988) and Cavalli-Sforza et al. (1989), there has been an increasing interest in depicting the history of human migrations by comparing genetic and linguistic differences that mirror different aspects of human history. Most of the literature concerns continental or macroregional patterns of variation, while regional and microregional scales were investigated le...

The ways individuals use words can reflect basic psychological processes, including clues to their thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and personality. This paper seeks to determine whether there is a relationship between Iranian EFL learners' writing styles and their personality and gender.  It focuses on gender and two key dimensions of personality (Neuroticism and Extroversion), which were asse...