Resumen de From mouth to keyboard: the place of non-canonical written and spoken structures in lexicography
Ana Zwitter Vitez, Darja Fiser
As user-generated content is on the rise both in terms of volume and importance, the long established relation between spoken and written communication needs to be re-examined in lexicography. This is the aim of this paper, in which we perform a corpus-based analysis of typical non-canonical words in spoken and computer-mediated communication in Slovene. The results show that the spoken and the Twitter corpus contain a similar proportion of non-standard pronunciation/spelling variants, interaction words and informal lexemes. On the opposite end of the spectrum are news comments which contain a higher proportion of nouns and a smaller proportion of non-canonical words. The presented study brings a language-independent methodology of identifying typical elements of spoken and written informal texts.
