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An Econometric method to detect the social significance of linguistic variables
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Germán Coloma
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July 15, 2014
Abstract
This paper proposes a quantitative method, drawn from the field of economic statistics (also known as “econometrics”), to detect the social significance of certain linguistic variables. It uses leastsquare regression analysis to find the relationship between the income of the individuals from a population and several linguistic characteristics of those individuals. As a result, we obtain “hedonic prices”, that indicate whether those characteristics are associated with higher or lower levels of income, and we can also detect whether those prices are statistically significant. The method is illustrated with an example taken from Spanish phonetics
Published Online: 2014-7-15
Published in Print: 2010-12-1
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