昨日の記事「#913. BNC による語彙の男女差の調査」 ([2011-10-27-1]) で取りあげた Rayson et al. では,話者の性別だけでなく年齢による語彙の変異も調査されている.年齢差といっても,35歳未満か以上かで上下の世代に分けた大雑把な分類だが,結果はいくつかの興味深い示唆を与えてくれる.以下は,χ2 の上位19位までの一覧である (142--43) .
| Rank | Under 35 | Over 35 | ||
| Word | χ2 | Word | χ2 | |
| 1 | mum | 1409.3 | yes | 2365.0 |
| 2 | fucking | 1184.6 | well | 1059.8 |
| 3 | my | 762.4 | mm | 895.2 |
| 4 | mummy | 755.2 | er | 773.8 |
| 5 | like | 745.2 | they | 682.2 |
| 6 | na as in wanna and gonna | 712.8 | said | 538.3 |
| 7 | goes | 606.6 | says | 443.1 |
| 8 | shit | 410.1 | were | 385.8 |
| 9 | dad | 403.7 | the | 352.2 |
| 10 | daddy | 380.1 | of | 314.6 |
| 11 | me | 371.9 | and | 224.7 |
| 12 | what | 357.3 | to | 211.2 |
| 13 | fuck | 330.1 | mean | 155.0 |
| 14 | wan as in wanna | 320.6 | he | 144.0 |
| 15 | really | 277.0 | but | 139.0 |
| 16 | okay | 257.0 | perhaps | 136.0 |
| 17 | cos | 254.4 | that | 131.3 |
| 18 | just | 251.8 | see | 122.1 |
| 19 | why | 240.0 | had | 118.3 |
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