ABSTRACT

We present the first quantitative analysis of spoken discourse for the Turkish language using memoirs of a group of old-time moviegoers of varying age groups whose birth year spreads over a period of four decades ranging from the 1930s to the 1960s. They tell their experiences by answering a set of questions. Their responses are evaluated comprehensively with the expectation that various attributes of the participants are reflected by their everyday speaking language. We also investigate their language characteristics in terms of their vocabulary richness and word usage. The results show that the age and gender of the participants can be inferred to some extent from their speech, as is the case for written text. However, the difference is not significant in the language use of younger and older respondents in terms of vocabulary richness and archaic word usage. With additional data obtained for some participants, it is shown that text can be accurately identified as being either spoken or written; however, the spoken text of a person can only be differentiated from their written text with the accuracy level of a random guess.

摘要

我们使用一组不同年龄段的老电影观众的回忆录，对土耳其语的口语话语进行了第一次定量分析，他们的出生年份跨越了从 1930 年代到 1960 年代的四个十年。他们通过回答一系列问题来讲述他们的经历。他们的回答被综合评估，期望参与者的各种属性通过他们的日常口语反映出来。我们还根据词汇丰富度和词汇使用来调查他们的语言特征。结果表明，参与者的年龄和性别可以在一定程度上从他们的演讲中推断出来，书面文本也是如此。然而，就词汇丰富度和古词使用而言，年轻和年长受访者的语言使用差异并不显着。通过为一些参与者获得的额外数据，表明文本可以准确地识别为口语或书面文本；然而，一个人的口语文本只能通过随机猜测的准确度与其书面文本区分开来。