Author of the README file: Piia Taremaa Last updated: 20.10.2022 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Title of the dataset: Data and R code for "Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories" DOI: ... URI: ... Description: Data and statistical code used in the paper "Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories" (accepted by the Journal of Nordic Linguistics in 2022). Authors of the paper: Piia Taremaa, Johanna Kiik, Leena Karin Toots & Ann Veismann Licence: CC-BY Acknowledgements: This study has been supported by the research fund of Kadri, Nikolai and Gerda Rõuk, by the Estonian Research Council grant (PSG671) and by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies). Aim of the study: (i) To establish Estonian's manner salience and path salience; (ii) To investigate the linguistic expression of speed in Estonian Contact: Piia Taremaa, University of Tartu (Jakobi 2-446, Tartu), piia.taremaa@ut.ee -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- The dataset consists of the following files: - Documentation: '00_README_Taremaa et al._Speed and frog stories in Estonian.txt'. This file (= the current document) contains the documentation of the dataset. - Data: 'Taremaa et al_konnalood_recordings.txt' and 'Taremaa et al_konnalood.txt' (full data is available for researchers upon request) - Statistical code: 'R code for the paper 'Speed as a dimension of manner in Estonian frog stories' (Taremaa et al.).txt'. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR 'Taremaa et al_konnalood_recordings.txt' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- File: 'Taremaa et al_konnalood_recordings.txt'. This fail contains information about the length of the recordings across the three conditions of the experiment. List of the variables: * Participant * Condition * Start * End * WordCountWithCompounds * TotalSpeechTime * WordsPerSecond * TotalSpeechTimeInMinutes * ClausesPerParticipant * MotionClausesPerParticipant ----------------------------------------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR 'Taremaa et al_konnalood.txt' ----------------------------------------------------------- File: 'Taremaa et al_konnalood.txt'. This file contains annotated data of the narrations gathered through the frog stories task in Estonian (full narrations are available for further research upon request). Clauses are manually coded for the following variables by the four authors of the paper. The coded data is analysed in R (see statistical code). The definitions and levels of the variables can be found in the paper. List of the variables: * Participant * Condition * ClauseID * Picture * Event * Scene * Motion * MotionType * VerbTypeMorphSynt * VerbTypeSem * Ground * Source * Location * Trajectory * Direction * Goal * Manner * MannerSpeed * MannerVerbOrModifPresence