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Record W4283805046 · doi:10.17507/tpls.1207.03

On Speak to and Talk to: A Corpora-Based Analysis

2022· article· en· W4283805046 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Namkil Kang

Bibliographic record

VenueTheory and Practice in Language Studies · 2022
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicLinguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCocaCorpus linguisticsBritish National CorpusBritish EnglishAmerican EnglishNounText corpusLinguisticsComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceHistory

Abstract

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The ultimate goal of this paper is to compare speak to with talk to in four corpora. In the Movie Corpus (Movie Corpus (MC). 20, January 2022. Online https://english-corpora.org /movies/), talk to was preferable to speak to in the films of six countries (America, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland). It is worth mentioning that in the Movie Corpus (Movie Corpus (MC). 20, January 2022. Online https://english-corpora.org /movies/), speak to (2,620 tokens) and talk to (18,667 tokens) was the most preferred types in the 2010s. In the TV Corpus (TV Corpus (TVC). 20, January 2022. Online https://english-corpora.org /tv/), talk to is preferable to speak to in six countries’ (America, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland) TV programs. It is noteworthy that in the TV Corpus (TV Corpus (TVC). 20, January 2022. Online https://english-corpora.org /tv/), speak to (8,279 tokens) and talk to (59,703 tokens) reached a peak in the 2010s. In the BNC (British National Corpus (BNC). 20, January 2022. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/bnc), the types speak to and talk to show the same pattern in three genres, whereas they show a different pattern in four genres. That is, speak to is 42.85% the same as talk to in their ranking. Finally, the COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA). 20, January 2022. Online https://corpus.byu.edu/coca) clearly shows that 42.85% of forty two nouns are the collocations of both speak to and talk to.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.151
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.324
Teacher spread0.290 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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