The analysis of different registers of spoken Lithuanian: lexical and grammatical features

Abstract

The aim of the study is to present lexical and grammatical features typical for different registers of modern Spoken Lithuanian. The study is based on a data of the Corpus of Spoken Lithuanian (http://donelaitis.vdu.lt/sakytines-kalbos-tekstynas/) which was developed in the framework of national projects coordinated by Vytautas Magnus University and supported by the Lithuanian State Science and Studies Foundation (grant No. L-12/2008) and by the Research Council of Lithuania (grants No. LIT-9-11, No. LIP-085/2016). Currently, the Corpus consists of 256 conversations (373,073 grammatically annotated word forms) involving 1086 speakers (659 women, 427 men). The age of the speakers range from 3 to 81. The largest group of informants belong to the age range from 19 to 44. The Corpus data were classified into different registers of spontaneous conversations and prepared conversations. The mostly frequent lemmas, the distribution of parts of speech and the main functions of the sentences in different registers of spoken language (spontaneous private conversations and prepared public conversations) were analysed. The results will be discussed in the presentation.