Goldsmith’s Contributions to the Weekly Magazine  

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Dixon, Peter ; Mannion, David

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Literary and Linguistic Computing vol. 22 no. 4 (Dec. 2007), page 447-468.
Fulltext: Vol 22, 4, p 447-468.pdf (205.57KB)

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Fifteen items in the Weekly Magazine have been attributed to Goldsmith. Our study uses traditional kinds of internal evidence (mainly verbal parallels) together with evidence from selected linguistic features. A preliminary analysis identifies features which best distinguish Goldsmith samples from those of a number of contemporary authors. Using this selection of features, we calculate the distances of the fifteen Weekly items from the cluster of Goldsmith samples; an item at too large a distance is unlikely to be his. A parallel investigation is based on sentence-length statistics. We conclude that seven essays may plausibly be assigned to Goldsmith, that he probably co-authored two pieces, and that in three cases he merely made minor additions to material from other sources.

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