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Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference “Dialogue 2018”. Moscow, May 30 – June 2, 2018. Vol. 1. Pp. 414–423, 2018
Many words that according to the dictionaries have just one meaning are in fact understood in dif... more Many words that according to the dictionaries have just one meaning are in fact understood in different ways by different speakers. In this article we deal with Russian nouns denoting everyday life objects which are subject to much variation by age, gender, and region and are poorly described by the existing dictionaries. We report the results of a multilevel survey, propose some possible metrics of word knowledge and show to what extent the words we studied are known among a certain population. We also claim that different speakers possess different sets of meanings for each word, propose ways to discover the distribution patterns for these sets and introduce the notion of disperse polysemy. We believe that our findings may be useful in lexicography (providing detailed information on current word usage in different social groups), lexical semantics (researching meaning shifts and patterns of its distribution among speakers), and language testing (more precise detection of the vocabulary sizes both in native speakers and in language learners).
Computational Linguistics and Intellectual Technologies: Proceedings of the International Conference “Dialogue 2018”. Moscow, May 30 – June 2, 2018. Vol. 1. Pp. 414–423, 2018
Many words that according to the dictionaries have just one meaning are in fact understood in dif... more Many words that according to the dictionaries have just one meaning are in fact understood in different ways by different speakers. In this article we deal with Russian nouns denoting everyday life objects which are subject to much variation by age, gender, and region and are poorly described by the existing dictionaries. We report the results of a multilevel survey, propose some possible metrics of word knowledge and show to what extent the words we studied are known among a certain population. We also claim that different speakers possess different sets of meanings for each word, propose ways to discover the distribution patterns for these sets and introduce the notion of disperse polysemy. We believe that our findings may be useful in lexicography (providing detailed information on current word usage in different social groups), lexical semantics (researching meaning shifts and patterns of its distribution among speakers), and language testing (more precise detection of the vocabulary sizes both in native speakers and in language learners).