Aged to Perfection: Machine-Learning Maps of Age in Conversational English

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17708v1
• Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:08:57 GMT
• Title: Aged to Perfection: Machine-Learning Maps of Age in Conversational English
• Authors: MingZe Tang,
• Abstract summary: The study uses the British National Corpus 2014, a large sample of contemporary spoken British English, to investigate language patterns across different age groups.<n>Our research attempts to explore how language patterns vary between different age groups, exploring the connection between speaker demographics and linguistic factors such as utterance duration, lexical diversity, and word choice.
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• Abstract: The study uses the British National Corpus 2014, a large sample of contemporary spoken British English, to investigate language patterns across different age groups. Our research attempts to explore how language patterns vary between different age groups, exploring the connection between speaker demographics and linguistic factors such as utterance duration, lexical diversity, and word choice. By merging computational language analysis and machine learning methodologies, we attempt to uncover distinctive linguistic markers characteristic of multiple generations and create prediction models that can consistently estimate the speaker's age group from various aspects. This work contributes to our knowledge of sociolinguistic diversity throughout the life of modern British speech.

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