Statistical Analysis of Proverbs and Sayings: Association Measure of Mutual Information (on material of Ukrainian National Linguistic Corpus).
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31558/1815-3070.2018.35.27Keywords:
association measure, phraseological units, mutual information, proverb, saying, statistics, the Ukrainian languageAbstract
The obtained results of the calculations for 52 proverbs and sayings, done with the help of the Ukrainian National Linguistic Corpus data, prove that all analysed units have high degree of non-randomness combination of word forms (MI is in the range from 24.5 to 95.27), which is a quantitative confirmation of their connection stability. The reference value, from which the connection of words is considered to be non-random, depends not only on the indicators of the absolute frequency of the construction and its individual components but also on the size of the corpus. For the Ukrainian National Linguistic Corpus, which consisted of 189 200 000 words in February 2018, the reference value is 7.56.
There is a statistically probable connection between the number of components in the proverb or saying and the size of association measure mutual information. Thus, for the three-component units the result of the MI is from 24.5 (Хліб усьому голова / Khlib usomu holova)) to 35.34 (Горбатого могила виправить / Horbatoho mohyla vypravyt); for four-component units – from 37.34 (Двічі літа не буває / Dvichi lita ne buvaie)) to 51.01 (Терпи, козаче, отаманом будеш / Terpy, kozache, otamanom budesh); for five-component from 53.42 (Гуртом добре й батька бити / Hurtom dobre y batka byty)) to 65.76 (Яке зіллячко, таке й сім'ячко / Yake zilliachko, take y simiachko); for six-component – from 69,53 (Як неділя, то й сорочка біла / Yak nedilia, to y sorochka bila) to 79.98 (Дай серцю волю – заведе в неволю / Dai sertsiu voliu – zavede v nevoliu); for seven-component – from 86.83 (Пан з паном, а Іван з Іваном / Pan z panom, a Ivan z Ivanom) to 95.27 (Гол, як сокол, а гострий, як бритва / Hol, yak sokol, a hostryi, yak brytva).
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