super-token

noun
/ˈsupɚˌtoʊkən/CA

Etymology

Coined by Sali Tagliamonte in 2006.

Definitions

  1. An instance of the same speaker/signer using two or more variants of a sociolinguistic…

    An instance of the same speaker/signer using two or more variants of a sociolinguistic variable in the same section of discourse.

    • Another useful technique is to incorporate ‘super-tokens’ directly into the top of the token file so that they are readily found when needed; for example, writing an abstract or reporting preliminary results.
    • The following super token was extracted from one of the informants who participated in the sociolinguistic interview for this research.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for super-token. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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