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#144 +ℓℓ

In #140 we looked at whose speech was most unusual in terms of proportion of different parts-of-speech.

Now we look at what parts-of-speech are unusually frequent or infrequent for certain speakers.

A positive number means more frequent than expected and a negative number means less frequent than expected.

Steve Hatch

Proper Nouns PROPN: +3.44

DuBois


Interjections INTJ: -3.17

Ms. Xi

Numbers NUM: +4.39
Proper Nouns PROPN: +3.03

Bob Redell

Determiners DET: +4.40

Sandra Elias

Proper Nouns PROPN: +5.69

Dimitri

Numbers NUM: +4.00

Leclerc


Interjections INTJ: -3.29

Dr. Lokken

Determiners DET: +5.93
Prepositions ADP: +3.26

Pronouns PRON: -3.39
Interjections INTJ: -4.72

Stratt

Determiners DET: +4.51
Prepositions ADP: +4.44
Proper Nouns PROPN: +4.17

Interjections INTJ: -8.73

Computer

Numbers NUM: +10.61
Nouns NOUN: +5.41

Adverbs ADV: -3.64

Grace

Interjections INTJ: +11.52
Pronouns PRON: +4.00

Adjectives ADJ: -3.11
Proper Nouns PROPN: -5.62
Nouns NOUN: -6.17

Rocky

Nouns NOUN: +12.04
Adjectives ADJ: +8.84

Coordinating Conjunctions CCONJ: -3.27
Pronouns PRON: -3.51
Particles PART: -3.66
Auxiliaries AUX: -3.91
Prepositions ADP: -5.83
Determiners DET: -15.10

Part-of-speech tagging was done with spaCy. The tagging uses Universal POS tags.

Tags PUNCT, SPACE, SYM, and X were ignored.

The numbers shown are the standard residual (O - E) / √E and are only listed if the absolute value is ≥3.